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Noun, Verb (transitive), Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective wooden has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

woodena. 
  •  Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.  [1913 Webster]
    "When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it."  [1913 Webster]
    "His singing was, I confess, a little wooden."  [1913 Webster]
Wooden spoon. (a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. “We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.” Macaulay. (b) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies. -- Wooden ware, a general name for buckets, bowls, and other articles of domestic use, made of wood. -- Wooden wedding. See under Wedding.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

wooden, adj.
1 made of wood.
2 like wood.
3 a stiff, clumsy, or stilted; without animation or flexibility (wooden movements; a wooden performance). b expressionless (a wooden stare).

Idiom
wooden-head colloq. a stupid person. wooden-headed colloq. stupid. wooden-headedness colloq. stupidity. wooden horse = Trojan Horse. wooden spoon a booby prize (orig. a spoon given to the candidate coming last in the Cambridge mathematical tripos).
Derivative
woodenly adv. woodenness n.

THESAURUS

wooden

arid, awkward, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, blunt, blunt-witted, buckram, bumbling, cardboard, characterless, clumsy, cold, colorless, dead, deadpan, dim, dim-witted, dismal, dopey, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dull of mind, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-witted, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, expressionless, fade, fat-witted, fishy, flat, gauche, glassy, gross-headed, halting, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, hebetudinous, ho-hum, hollow, impassive, inane, inept, inexcitable, inexpressive, insipid, jejune, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, maladroit, muscle-bound, obtuse, pale, pallid, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poker-faced, poky, ponderous, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stilted, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tedious, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, unexpressive, unhandy, unhappy, unlively, vacant, vapid, weighty

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Materials

N materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.

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