wooden-headed

[ wood-n-hed-id ]

adjective

, Informal.

1. thick-headed, dull; stupid.

Other Words From

• wooden-headed·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of wooden-headed¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

“Other than the fact that they’re not wooden-headed ninnies who can only open their mouths to give orders and gossip?”

From Literature

There’s an antique child’s rocking horse in the window, a threadbare quilt, a wooden-headed doll with a battered face.

From Literature

There is enough and to spare of blame ready in any balanced mind for either of these great writers, but they can do without the admiration of wooden-headed prigs, however able.

From Project Gutenberg

A few wooden-headed spears were all the property they possessed, excepting the worn-out skins thrown over their shoulders.

From Project Gutenberg

"It is epitomized by a historian's statement about Philip II of Spain, the most wooden-headed of all sovereigns: 'No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.'"

From Wall Street Journal