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Definition of wooden :
1. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless.
2. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.
Synonyms:
plank, acrylic, glazed, be all fingers and thumbs, insensible, bankable, inflammable, debut, earthen, rough-hewn, clumsy, elm, torpid, uneasy, cardboard, gauche, horny, temporary, numb, flammable, concrete, guest, graceless, jerky, awareness, bone, ungainly, wood, evergreen, frame, unresponsive, convulsive, hard, robotic, benumbed, interpretive, stilted, uncomfortable, ungraceful, board, stuporous, buckram, flexible, resinous, off-screen, rustic, starchy, dull, woody, all-star, alabaster, uncoordinated, stiff, glass, awkward, inelegant, live, oak, interpretative, elastic, buoyant, insensitive, heavy
Usage examples:
- I heard him leaping, rather than running, up the ricketty wooden stairs. - "Basil", Wilkie Collins.
- What those flat wooden cases were they could form no conception. - "The Ball and The Cross", G.K. Chesterton.
- He twisted and turned on the hard wooden bench during the long sermon. - "Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance", Frances Cavanah.