wooded

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ʊdɪd

From Middle English woded (“concealed by trees”), equivalent to wood +‎ -ed.

wooded (comparative more wooded, superlative most wooded)

1. Covered with trees.

   Synonyms: sylvan, woody, woodsy

   • 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:

     All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.

   • 1961 October, 'Voyageur', “The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:

     Through the thickly wooded and precipitous slopes on either side of the line there are one or two short rock tunnels.

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 260:

     One of the loveliest rivers in Wales, the Teifi, loops and swirls down to Llanybyther through a lush valley hemmed in by range upon range of wooded hills.

2. (of wine) Aged in wooden casks.

• well-wooded
• woodedly
• woodedness

• wood
• woodlike
• woodsy
• woody

See wood (verb)

wooded

1. simple past and past participle of wood