woody

1. 1.

   made of or containing or resembling wood

   “woody plants”

   “perennial herbs with woody stems”

   “a woody taste”

   Antonymsnonwoody

   Similarashenbeechenbirchcedarnligneousoakensuffrutescentwooden
2. 2.

   abounding in trees

   “an arboreous landscape”

   “violets in woodsy shady spots”

   “a woody area near the highway”

   Synonymsarboraceousarboreouswoodsy

   Similarwooded
3. 3.

   made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls

   Similarhard

Other forms of woody

comparative or superlative

woodier

comparative or superlative

woodiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about woody

What does woody mean?

woody means "made of or containing or resembling wood". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in woody?

woody has 2 syllables: wood-y. The stress falls on "wood". In IPA it is /ˈwʊdi/.

What is another word for woody?

Close synonyms include arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy. 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.

What is the opposite of woody?

The recorded antonyms are nonwoody.

Is woody a common word?

woody is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.