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wooden

wooden

293 1.0
Made of wood
  • adjective
  • /ˈwʊdən/
translation icon : de madera
  • The craftsman built a beautiful table made of wooden slats.
  • wooden house
  • wooden block
  • wooden stool

This person just hit a wooden table and stayed there.

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Examples

  • Mack helped his father set up the big wooden extension ladder in the backyard.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • It was this very cute little wooden Christmas phone.

  • - It had five wooden figures on it.

  • - Or a little wooden boy.

  • "It's very, very rare to find such a lot of wooden houses," she says.

    Academic text (2008)
  • This person just hit a wooden table and stayed there.

  • "Wooden ships on the water..."

  • In one house, the researchers found a small wooden cross and a metal crucifix.

    Academic text (2011)
  • In the center of the room was a battered wooden table with six chairs.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • The door burst open and Hyrum came in, a wooden chest on his shoulders.

    Fiction book (1990)

Synonyms

woody
vswooden
4 3.9

Made of wood or tasting like wood

refers broadly to being made wholly or partly from wood
treen
vswooden
  • Archaic
9.6

Made of wood, often describing small household items

applies to any object partly or wholly made of wood
timbered
vswooden
5.5

Having walls or beams made of wood

covers objects or materials made partly or wholly of wood

Antonyms

840 1.1

A shiny solid material that conducts heat and electricity and can be shaped

798 1.0

A light material people make and use for bottles and bags

1 7.2

To become smooth and shiny, like a clear window

Compounds

10 3.8

A leg made of wood that replaces a missing one

5 1.0

A spoon made of wood used to stir or mix food

3 5.3

A shoe made from one piece of wood worn in some European countries

Wooden Horse
  • Literature
1 8.1

A large hollow wooden figure of a horse that hides soldiers so they can enter a city

1 3.5

A long bench in a church where people sit during services

A stiff, awkward way of acting without showing emotion

wooden language
  • Literature
8.9

Formal, stiff language that lacks feeling

A person who finishes last in a friendly contest

4.0

A prize often a small wooden object for the person or team finishing last in a competition

A stiff way of acting without emotion that looks unnatural

A fake smile that shows no real feeling

A kitchen counter with a wooden top for preparing and eating food

How Built

bricklike
3.4
brick facade
1 4.9
clad
13 6.7
wooden
293 1.0

Surface Forms

wooden positive
woodener comparative
woodenest superlative

Morphology

wooden = wood (transparent) = wood + en

The adjective is directly formed from the noun 'wood' with the productive suffix '-en' meaning 'made of' or 'consisting of'.

Etymology

Wooden comes from the simple word wood plus the ending -en, which means 'made of'. So wooden literally means 'made of wood' and is used for things like a wooden fence or chest.