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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionarywood·en\ˈwu̇-dən\ adjective DATE 1538 1. made or consisting of wood2. lacking ease or flexibility : awkwardly stiff a wooden speech a wooden performer• wood·en·ly adverb• wood·en·ness \-dən-(n)əs\ noun Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7☞ woodenwood·en / 5wudn / adjective1. [usually before noun] made of wood 木制的；木头的: a wooden box 木箱 2. not showing enough natural expression, emotion or movement 木头似的；死板的；呆板的；木讷的 SYN stiff : The actor playing the father was too wooden. 饰演父亲的演员太呆板。 • wood·en·ly adv.: She speaks her lines very woodenly. 她台词念得毫无表情。 • wood·en·ness noun [U] OLTwooden adj.⇨ lacklustreWebster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridgedwood·en\ˈwu̇dən\ adjective(sometimes -er/-est)1. a. : made or consisting wholly or sometimes partly of wood < wooden houses > < wooden box > b. obsolete : engaged in or concerned with the preparation of wood c. : resembling or producing a sound characteristic of a struck hollow wooden object < the wooden sound of numskulls being soundly hit — Edith Sitwell >2. a. : resembling wood in stiffness and lack of resilience < the hands are also … wooden, not only hard, but lifeless — C.W.H.Johnson > < wooden-faced country people — William Faulkner > < a wooden military posture > < a wooden and inflexible policy — W.M.Dacey > b. : lacking in ease, grace, charm, liveliness, lifelikeness, interest, or zest : awkward, clumsy, dry, lifeless, dull < hear the wooden dialogue — Shakespeare > < cooperation … has frequently been reluctant and wooden — Woodrow Wyatt > < party debates are wooden and tedious formalities — Christopher Hollis > < a wooden and perfunctory pedagogue — John Dewey > < book is wooden and insensitive — George Nobbe >3. : woodedSynonyms: see stiff

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