wooden

wooden
    adj 1: made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing
           wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden
           wheels"
    2: lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden";
       "a wooden smile"
    

Wooden \Wood"en\, a.
   1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling,
      wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
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   2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
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            When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a
            very wooden figure on it.             --Collier.
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            His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. --G.
                                                  MacDonald.
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   {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}.
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97 Moby Thesaurus words for "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