wooden
WUUD-n/ˈwʊdn̩/
- 1Made of wood, or built mainly out of wood.
The cabin's wooden beams had darkened with age and smoke.
Carpenters fitted the entrance with a solid wooden frame.
- 2Stiff and awkward in movement, or dull and without emotion in speech, as if made of wood.
Like a marionette going through its motions without a flicker of life.
The actor's wooden performance drained all the tension from the scene.
He delivered the apology in a wooden tone, as though reciting a grocery list.
Similarstiff, stilted, lifeless, expressionless, flat
Oppositeexpressive, animated, lively, natural
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Origin
Formed from "wood" and the suffix "-en", "wooden" dates from the 1530s. It gradually replaced "treen" ("made from a tree"), which came from Middle English "treen", from Old English "triewen".