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wooden

wooden

317 1.0
Made of wood
  • adjective
  • /ˈwʊdən/
: 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
7 3.9

Made of wood or tasting like wood

refers broadly to being made wholly or partly from wood
timbered
vswooden
1 5.5

Having walls or beams made of wood

covers objects or materials made partly or wholly of wood
treen
vswooden
  • Archaic
1 9.6

Made of wood, often describing small household items

applies to any object partly or wholly made of wood

Antonyms

889 1.1

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

800 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

11 3.8

A leg made of wood that replaces a missing one

11 1.0

A spoon made of wood used to stir or mix food

4 5.3

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

1 3.5

A long bench in a church where people sit during services

Wooden Horse
  • Literature
1 8.1

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

A stiff way of acting without emotion that looks unnatural

A stiff, awkward way of acting without showing emotion

1 4.0

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

wooden language
  • Literature
8.9

Formal, stiff language that lacks feeling

A person who finishes last in a friendly contest

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
317 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.