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Emotional vs Woody - What's the difference?

emotional | woody |

As adjectives the difference between emotional and woody

is that emotional is of or relating to the emotions while woody is covered in woods; wooded.

As a noun woody is

a station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.

As a proper noun Woody is

a male given name, from a nickname for Woodrow.

emotional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the emotions.
  • emotional crisis
  • Characterised by emotion.
  • Determined by emotion rather than reason.
  • emotional decision
  • Appealing to or arousing emotion.
  • emotional speech
  • Easily affected by emotion.
  • She’s an emotional person.
  • Readily displaying emotion.
  • emotional greeting

    Synonyms

    * demonstrative * effusive * sentimental * temperamental

    Derived terms

    * emotional cripple * emotionalise (also emotionalize) * emotionalism * emotionally * * *

    woody

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered in woods; wooded.
  • (obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
  • with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.
  • Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
  • (botany) Non-herbaceous.
  • Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.
  • (botany) Lignified: "the woody parts of a plant".
  • Noun

    (woodies)
  • A station wagon that has a retro wooden exterior, often associated with Southern California surfing culture.
  • (vulgar, slang) An erection.
  • See also

    * wood * wooden * wooded