Synonyms for wooden
ˈwʊd nwood·en

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. wooden

   Synonyms:
   clumsy, dull, heavy, inert, ponderous, slow, sluggish, stony

   Antonyms:
   aerial, airy, animated, ethereal, fairylike, frolicsome, gay, joyous, light, lively, sprightly

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1. woodenadjective

   made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood

   "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels"

   Antonyms:
   nonwoody, graceful

2. woodenadjective

   lacking ease or grace

   "the actor's performance was wooden"; "a wooden smile"

   Antonyms:
   graceful, nonwoody

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. woodenadjective

   Synonyms:
   made of wood

2. woodenadjective

   Synonyms:
   woody, ligneous

3. woodenadjective

   Synonyms:
   awkward, clumsy, ungainly, stiff

4. woodenadjective

   Synonyms:
   wood-cut

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1. List of paraphrases for "wooden":

   wood, muk, timber, lumber

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1. Mahmud Rafiq:

   We had very little food, and we agreed that we would leave it for the women and children, then they started hitting us. They took the food. They pushed many of us overboard. They beat us and attacked us with knives. I was hit with a wooden plank on the head and on my legs.

2. Bob Knight:

   I have a lot of respect for Wooden as a coach, how he coached, he was a good coach, but from then on, and I don’t mind saying it, I don’t respect Wooden, because he allowed Sam Gilbert to do whatever it took to recruit kids. And one time he told me, he said ‘ I just did n’t know how to deal with Sam Gilbert. ’ And I ’m saying to Bob Knight ‘ I damn sure could have dealt with him, ’.

3. Barry Stockwell:

   Ten years ago, when performing our annual gingerbread display cleaning, we noticed bees were very attracted to the sugar on the displays after deconstruction, we decided to bring the display pieces to our Disney tree farm and lay them out in our field to give the bees a chance to collect the sugar on the wooden structures.

4. Andrew Chamberlain:

   However, wood is not preserved on most Neolithic archaeological sites and no wooden measuring devices have been found in prehistoric Britain.

5. Martin Passingham:

   In the main hut there is stuff everywhere, a coal shovel beside the stove, jars and containers of food on the shelf, wooden spoons left on the kitchen bench, all of these things really do tell the story more thoroughly.