wooden
US: /ˈwʊdən/
UK: /wˈʊdən/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
wooden /'wudn/- tính từ
- bằng gỗ
- (nghĩa bóng) cứng đờ; đờ đẫn; vụng, lúng túng
- a wooden stare: cái nhìn đờ đẫn
- wooden head
- người ngu độn
- wooden spoon
- (sử học) thìa gỗ (tặng người đậu bét môn toán ở trường đại học Căm-brít)
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective1 [usually before noun] made of wood: a wooden box
2 not showing enough natural expression, emotion or movement: The actor playing the father was too wooden. + Her voice sounded wooden and lifeless as she struggled to control her feelings.
woodenly adverb: She speaks her lines very woodenly.
woodenness noun [U]
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 wood, woody, ligneous, xyloid:
The wooden cabinet for the kitchen is almost finished.
2 stiff, rigid, artificial, clumsy, stilted, unnatural, awkward, ungainly, spiritless, unanimated, dead, lifeless, dry, passionless, unimpassioned, impassive, vacant, empty, colourless, expressionless, deadpan:
The understudy gave a wooden performance as Uncle Vanya.
3 unintelligent, block-headed, stupid, dull, insensitive, slow-witted, dull-witted, obtuse, oafish, doltish, tiny-minded, dim-witted, dunderpated, Colloq thick, wooden-headed, knuckle-headed:
Clancy has some pretty wooden ideas about how to run a business.
Concise dictionary
'wʊdnadj.
+made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood
+lacking ease or grace
