cardboardnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈkɑːd.bɔːd/us/ˈkɑːrd.bɔːrd/B2 material like very thick, stiff paper, usually pale brown in colour, used especially for making boxes:
a cardboard box
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- He was living on the streets for three months, and his home was a cardboard box.
- You can make your own distorting mirror by pasting a sheet of kitchen foil to a piece of thin cardboard.
- We made the figures out of cardboard.
- The children wanted a piece of cardboard to cut shapes from.
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Publishing: paper & stationery
- A2
- A3
- A5
- acid-free
- assembler
- ballpoint pen
- graph paper
- headed notepaper
- highlighter
- jotter
- keypad
- legal pad
- pencil
- ream
- rice paper
- rough paper
- scrap paper
- scratch paper
- tissue
- watermark
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cardboardadjective
uk/ˈkɑːd.bɔːd/us/ˈkɑːrd.bɔːrd/disapprovingrelating to something, usually a character in a film or play, that does not seem to be real or interesting:
I've never enjoyed his plays - somehow all his characters are cardboard.
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Natural and artificial
- artificial
- bogus
- claim
- contrived
- fake
- false
- make no claim to be sth idiom
- man-made
- mock
- natural
- naturally
- naturalness
- organic
- plastic
- raw
- simulate
- synthetic
- unadulterated
- unaffected
- unbleached
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