wooden
WUUD-n/ˈwʊdn̩/
- 1Made out of wood.
The children stacked the wooden blocks into a tall tower.
They ate dinner at a long wooden table in the kitchen.
- 2Stiff and awkward in movement, or speaking with no feeling.
Like a toy doll that can't bend or smile in a real way.
His wooden smile made the whole photo look fake.
She gave a wooden reply, with no warmth in her voice at all.
Similarstiff, stilted, lifeless, expressionless, flat
Oppositeexpressive, animated, lively, natural
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Origin
From "wood" plus the ending "-en". It appeared in the 1530s and slowly replaced the older word "treen", meaning "made from a tree".