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wooden 音標拼音: [w'ʊdən] a. 木制的;呆板的,笨拙的 木制的;呆板的,笨拙的 wooden adj 1: made or consisting of ( entirely or in part) or employing wood; " a wooden box"; " an ancient cart with wooden wheels" 2: lacking ease or grace; " the actor' s performance was wooden"; " a wooden smile" Wooden \ Wood" en\, a. 1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. [ 1913 Webster] When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it. -- Collier. [ 1913 Webster] His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. -- G. MacDonald. [ 1913 Webster] { Wooden spoon}. ( a) ( Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. " We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus." -- Macaulay. ( b) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies. { Wooden ware}, a general name for buckets, bowls, and other articles of domestic use, made of wood. { Wooden wedding}. See under { Wedding}. [ 1913 Webster] 97 Moby Thesaurus words for " wooden": arid, awkward, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, blunt, blunt- witted, buckram, bumbling, cardboard, characterless, clumsy, cold, colorless, dead, deadpan, dim, dim- witted, dismal, dopey, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dull of mind, dull- headed, dull- pated, dull- witted, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, expressionless, fade, fat- witted, fishy, flat, gauche, glassy, gross- headed, halting, ham- handed, heavy, heavy- handed, hebetudinous, ho- hum, hollow, impassive, inane, inept, inexcitable, inexpressive, insipid, jejune, leaden, lifeless, low- spirited, maladroit, muscle- bound, obtuse, pale, pallid, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poker- faced, poky, ponderous, slow, slow- witted, sluggish, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stilted, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tedious, thick- brained, thick- headed, thick- pated, thick- witted, thickskulled, unexpressive, unhandy, unhappy, unlively, vacant, vapid, weighty
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