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| Main Entry: |
wooden
[wood-n]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made of timber |
| Synonyms: | board, clapboard, frame, ligneous, log, peg, plant, slab, timber, timbered, woody |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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