🏠 With wooden beams 🌲 Covered with trees

timbered

4.2

Land covered with trees

adjective
/ˈtɪmbərd/

: arbolado

The cabin was nestled in a timbered area, providing a perfect retreat from the bustling city.

Examples

Two days later, I felt the same sense of gratitude when I saw deer on a timbered slope above the Selway River.

Fiction book (1995)
The hikers enjoyed a peaceful afternoon in the timbered valley surrounded by tall pine trees.
Many animals find shelter in the timbered parts of the forest, where they can hide from predators.

Synonyms

wooded

vstimbered

32 2.4

An area with many trees growing on it

is the same concept but highlights living, growing trees

woody

vstimbered

1 2.0

Having many trees like a small forest

is used for actual coverage by growing trees rather than mere resemblance

forested

vstimbered

1 2.3

An area covered with many trees

is about being covered with growing trees but may be less dense

arboreous

vstimbered

9.8

Full of trees, like a forest or park

is the same idea but phrased to stress growing tree cover

arboraceous

vstimbered

9.9

Having many trees like a forest or park

is about being covered with growing trees rather than abundance

arbory

vstimbered

Archaic

9.9

Covered with trees like a small wood

is the neutral everyday term for the same meaning

arbored

vstimbered

6.8

Having trees or leaves that make a shaded path

is about general coverage with growing trees, not only shaded walkways

bosky

vstimbered

Archaic

9.9

Covered with trees and bushes

focuses on being covered mainly by growing trees rather than bushes

forestlike

vstimbered

3.5

Like a forest with many trees and plants

describes actual coverage with growing trees rather than merely seeming so

Antonyms

barren

5 7.4

An area of land where little grows and people do not live

cleared

1.8

Made free of trees, plants, or other things so it is open

Compounds

half-timbered

Specialized

1 8.2

A building with visible wooden frames and walls filled with brick or plaster

clean-timbered architecture

Specialized

8.0

A style of building with simple straight lines and visible wood parts

How Wooded

dense

42 2.8

forested

1 2.3

timbered

4.2

wooded

32 2.4

sparse

31 5.0

treeless

4 2.7

Surface Forms

timbered positive

Morphology

timbered = timber (semi-transparent) = timber + ed

The adjective 'timbered' extends from 'having timber' to 'covered with trees', a related but broader or slightly shifted meaning that may not be perfectly transparent to all learners.

Etymology

The word timbered can also mean 'covered with trees' and comes from the same root timber, which can mean 'wood' or 'trees'. So timbered land is land that has many trees or woodland.