| Library / English Dictionary |
WOODED
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Covered with growing trees and bushes etc
Example:
a heavily wooded tract
Classified under:
Similar:
arboraceous; arboreous; woodsy; woody (abounding in trees)
bosky; brushy (covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets)
braky; brambly (covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth)
forested (covered with forest)
jungly (overgrown with tropical vegetation)
overgrown (abounding in usually unwanted vegetation)
rushy (abounding in rushes)
scrabbly; scrubby (sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush)
silvan; sylvan (relating to or characteristic of wooded regions)
thicket-forming (tending to form dense thickets)
timbered (covered with growing timber)
woodsy (characteristic or suggestive of woods)
Also:
uncleared (not cleared; not rid of objects or obstructions)
Antonym:
unwooded (not wooded)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb wood
Context examples:
The shores of North Inlet were as thickly wooded as those of the southern anchorage, but the space was longer and narrower and more like, what in truth it was, the estuary of a river.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
