wooden
UK/ˈwʊdn̩/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
British/ˈwɵdn̩/
wooden adjective: made of wood.
Adjective
wooden (comparative more wooden, superlative most wooden)
- Made of wood.
- a wooden boat
- On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.
- As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.
- wooden acting
Proper noun capitalized: Wooden
Wooden (plural Woodens)
- A surname.
wooden meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
wooden in Urdu
- بےوقوف, چوبی, لکڑی کا بنا, سخت
wooden in Bengali
- কাষ্ঠময়, কাষ্ঠনির্মিত, কাষ্ঠল, কাষ্ঠবত, নীরসয
wooden in Telugu
- made of wood
- కలప kalapa
wooden in Malayalam
- wooden; made of wood
- മര mara
More languagesFewer languages
- wooden in Sanskrit
- काष्ठमय kāṣṭhamaya
- wooden in Arabic
- خَشَبِيّ ḵašabiyy
- wooden in Persian
- چوبی čubi, چوبین čubin
Examples of wooden in a sentence
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and...
Forms of wooden
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more wooden |
| superlative | most wooden |
| alternative form (obsolete) | wodden |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Woodens |
Origin of wooden
PIE word *dwóh₁ From wood + -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from Middle English treen, from Old English triewen.
Words formed from wooden
- don't take any wooden nickels
- nonwooden
- unwooden
- wooden anniversary
- Woodenbridge
- wooden coat
- wooden ear
- woodener
- woodenest
- wooden fish
- woodenhead
- wooden-headed
- woodenheaded
- wooden horse
- woodenish
- wooden kimono
- wooden language
- wooden leg
- wooden-legged
- woodenly
- wooden mare
- woodenness
- wooden nickel
- wooden nutmeg
- wooden overcoat
- wooden spoon
- wooden spooner
- wooden spoonist
- wooden surtout
- wooden-top
- woodentop
- woodenware
- wooden wedge
- woodeny
Phrases with wooden
- wooden legs
- wooden coats
- wooden mares
- wooden fishes
- wooden horses
- wooden onesie
- wooden spoons
- wooden wedges
- wooden kimonos
- wooden nickels
- wooden nutmegs
- wooden spooners
4 more phrasesFewer phrases
Questions about wooden
- What does wooden mean?
- Wooden means made of wood.
- What is wooden in Urdu?
- Wooden in Urdu is بےوقوف, چوبی, لکڑی کا بنا. See Wooden meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use wooden in a sentence?
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people.
- What part of speech is wooden?
- Wooden can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce wooden?
- Wooden is pronounced /ˈwʊdn̩/ (UK).
Words near wooden in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wooden (page history and authors); Wooden (page history and authors); wooden (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wooden (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); മര (Malayalam) (page history and authors); काष्ठमय (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-wooden.ogg.
Cite this entry: “wooden.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wooden. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.