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- pronunciation:
- wU
dihn
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
made or consisting of wood.
- synonyms:
- wood
- similar words:
- ligneous, woody
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| definition 2: |
having no grace; stiff; unnatural.
- synonyms:
- awkward, graceless, stiff, ungraceful, unnatural
- similar words:
- affected, artificial, clumsy, constrained, contrived, forced, formal, labored, rigid, staid, strict, ungainly
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| definition 3: |
without emotion or spirit.
- synonyms:
- blank, empty, impassive, leaden, listless, spiritless, vacant
- similar words:
- apathetic, deadpan, dull, expressionless, impassible, lethargic, mechanical, passive, stolid, torpid, vapid
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| related words: |
clumsy, phlegmatic, stiff |
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| derivations: |
woodenly (adv.), woodenness (n.) |
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