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

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "wooden":

   wood, muk, timber, lumber

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1. The Emmy-winner:

   And then I thought well, if I’m doing she/her, why don’t I add that to the name? Because I’ve got ‘Edward’ on my passport, it’s quite wooden and big and I don’t call myself that. So, I just thought I’ll add Suzy there, and then Eddie, and people can choose what they want and no one can go wrong.

2. Ernst Jünger:

   Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.

3. 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.

4. David McCarthy:

   I was standing at an angle from the building and I could see the texture of the stucco on the front of the building, you could see the vertical wooden supports through the stucco and I looked at the picture and they were in the exactly the same place. I was amazed. That clinched it.

5. Michael Doherty:

   More than 40 tourists and crew members plunged into the waters of Ha Long Bay on Friday to escape the growing inferno on the docked wooden Aphrodite Cruise ship, the New Zealand Herald reported. The crew did their best but they were all very young and obviously overwhelmed by the circumstances, the passengers were guided to the sun deck of the ship and thereafter given no direction or support. It definitely felt as if it was just chaos.