# wooden

Pronunciation: say "WUUD-n" /ˈwʊdn̩/

## Adjective

1. Made of wood, or built mainly out of wood.
   - Simple: Made out of wood.
   - _The cabin's wooden beams had darkened with age and smoke._
   - _Carpenters fitted the entrance with a solid wooden frame._
2. Stiff and awkward in movement, or dull and without emotion in speech, as if made of wood.
   - Simple: Stiff and awkward in movement, or speaking with no feeling.
   - _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._

## 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".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/wooden (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).