wooden-headed

Questions about wooden-headed

What does wooden-headed mean?

wooden-headed means "(used informally) stupid".

How many syllables are in wooden-headed?

wooden-headed has 5 syllables and divides as wo-o-den--hea-ded under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for wooden-headed?

Close synonyms include blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wooden-headed a common word?

wooden-headed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.