wooden -
adj. 1 made of wood.
2 like wood.
3 a stiff, clumsy, or stilted; without animation or flexibility (
wooden movements; a
wooden performance). b expressionless (a
wooden stare).
wooden-head colloq. a stupid person. wooden-headed colloq. stupid. wooden-headedness colloq. stupidity. wooden horse = Trojan Horse. wooden spoon a booby prize (orig. a spoon given to the candidate coming last in the Cambridge mathematical tripos).
woodenly adv. woodenness n.
