wooden

wooden
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. wood[y], ligneous, xyloid; oaken, mahogany, ash, pine, teak, walnut, etc.; frame, clapboard, shingle[d]; stiff, rigid, in-flexible; expressionless, lifeless, unimaginative. See materials, unmeaningness, hardness, weariness.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [Made of wood]
Syn. wood, frame, frame-built, log-built, board, boarded, clapboard, clapboarded, plank, built of slabs; pine, oak, elm, ash, mahogany, etc.
2. [Having the characteristics of wood]
Syn. flammable, inflammable, stiff, clumsy, resinous, temporary, hard, destructible, buoyant.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
stiff, rigid, awkward, graceless, formal, tense, expressionless, blank, stony, dull, lifeless.
ANT.: loose, limber, relaxed, informal, expressive
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. So rigidly constrained, formal, or awkward as to lack all grace and spontaneity: buckram, starchy, stiff, stilted. See FLEXIBLE. 2. Lacking responsiveness or alertness: benumbed, dull, insensible, insensitive, numb, stuporous, torpid, unresponsive. See AWARENESS.

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