English dictionary
woo
verbPronunciation
/wuː/
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
verb
- To endeavor to gain someone's support.
- (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with
- To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
interjection
- Expressing joy or mirth; woohoo, yahoo.
noun
- A person readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations.
- Those beliefs.
adjective
- Supernatural, pseudoscientific.
- Readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations.
Example sentences
"I got you a new cell phone." "Woo, that's great!"
That reporter is a bit of a woo woo.
He is really into all that woo woo.
He made a living out of woo woo beliefs.