wooden-headed

[ wood-n-hed-id ]

/ ˈwʊd nˌhɛd ɪd /

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adjective Informal.

thick-headed, dull; stupid.

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Origin of wooden-headed

First recorded in 1850–55

OTHER WORDS FROM wooden-headed

wood·en-head·ed·ness, noun

Words nearby wooden-headed

wood duck, wooded, wooden, wood engraving, woodenhead, wooden-headed, Wooden Horse, wooden Indian, wooden shoe, wooden spoon, wooden tongue

How to use wooden-headed in a sentence

Here she is in June saying “Trans politics and feminism have never been headed to the same place.”
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Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
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Rodriguez now headed home to his kids, as did thousands of other police parents.
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He headed west in 1860 for health reasons and to join the gold rush in Colorado.
My Love Letter to the Stetson|Mark McKinnon|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Even when he opens up, the sentences are wooden, the scenes sucked dry of emotion.
The Story of the World’s Greatest Cricket Player|William O’Connor|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
But the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
One of Yung Pak's favourite toys was a wooden jumping-jack with a pasteboard tongue.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike
She plays with Captain Lovelock as a child does with a wooden harlequin, she pulls a string and he throws up his arms and legs.
Confidence|Henry James
The whole thing begins to have a jigsaw look, like a child's toy rack with wooden soldiers on it, expanding and contracting.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock