| Main Entry: | wooden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made of timber |
Synonyms: |
board, clapboard, frame, ligneous, log, peg, plant, slab, timber, timbered, woody |
| Main Entry: | wooden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stiff, inflexible |
Synonyms: |
awkward, bumbling, clumsy, gauche, gawky, graceless, heavy, heavy-handed, inelegant, inept, maladroit, obstinate, ponderous, rigid, stilted, unbending, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unyielding, weighty |
Antonyms: |
bending, flexible, pliable |
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indifferent, cold |
Synonyms: |
anesthetized, apathetic, asleep, boring, callous, deadened, dull, flat, frigid, glazed, inert, insensitive, insipid, lukewarm, numb, numbed, paralyzed, senseless, spiritless, stagnant, stale, still, tasteless, torpid, unfeeling, uninteresting, unresponsive, vapid, wooden |
Antonyms: |
active, animated, interested, live, living, responsive, spirited, warm |
| Main Entry: | deadpan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressionless |
Synonyms: |
blank, impassive, nobody home, poker-faced, serious, stony, straight-faced, unreadable, vacant, wooden |
| Main Entry: | expressionless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a blank look on face |
Synonyms: |
dead*, deadpan, dull, empty, fish-eyed, impassive, inexpressive, inscrutable, lackluster, lusterless, nobody home, poker-faced, stolid, straight-faced, stupid, unexpressive, vacant, vacuous, wooden |
Antonyms: |
animated, demonstrative, expressive |
| Main Entry: | forced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compulsory, strained |
Synonyms: |
affected, artificial, begrudging, binding, bound, coerced, coercive, compelled, conscripted, constrained, contrived, enforced, factitious, false, grudging, inflexible, insincere, involuntary, labored, mandatory, obligatory, peremptory, rigid, slave, stiff, stringent, unnatural, unwilling, wooden |
| Notes: | forcible indicates the use of brute force, forced means done involuntarily, and forceful suggests a potential for force |
Antonyms: |
noncompulsory, spontaneous, unforced, voluntary |
| Main Entry: | gauche |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tactless, unsophisticated |
Synonyms: |
awkward, bumbling, clumsy, crude, graceless, green, halting, ham-handed, heavy-handed, ignorant, ill-bred, ill-mannered, inelegant, inept, insensitive, lacking, maladroit, oafish, uncouth, uncultured, unhappy, unpolished, wooden |
Antonyms: |
elegant, graceful, mannerly, polished, refined, sophisticated, tactful, tasteful |
| Main Entry: | halting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hesitant |
Synonyms: |
awkward, bumbling, claudicant, clumsy, doubtful, faltering, gauche, imperfect, indecisive, inept, irresolute, labored, limping, lumbering, maladroit, slow, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, tentative, uncertain, unhandy, vacillating, vacillatory, wavering, wooden |
Antonyms: |
flowing, smooth, unhesitating |
| Main Entry: | impassive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aloof, cool |
Synonyms: |
apathetic, callous, cold, cold-blooded, collected, composed, dispassionate, dry, emotionless, hardened, heartless, imperturbable, indifferent, indurated, inexcitable, inexpressive, inscrutable, insensible, insusceptible, matter-of-fact, nonchalant, passionless, phlegmatic, placid, poker-faced, reserved, reticent, sedate, self-contained, serene, spiritless, stoic, stoical, stolid, taciturn, unconcerned, unemotional, unexcitable, unfeeling, unflappable, unimpressible, unmoved, unruffled, wooden |
Antonyms: |
emotional, feeling, passionate, responsive, sensitive, susceptible, warm |
| Main Entry: | inelegant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, crude |
Synonyms: |
awkward, coarse, crass, gauche, graceless, gross, indelicate, labored, oafish, raw, rough, rude, stiff*, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, ungainly, ungraceful, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, wooden |
Antonyms: |
elegant, glamorous, graceful, refined, sophisticated |