stodgy

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adjective

1. heavy and starchy and hard to digest
- stodgy food
- a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full
• Similar to:
indigestible
2. (used pejoratively) out of fashion;
old fashioned
- moss-grown ideas about family life
• Syn:
fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud
• Similar to:
unfashionable, unstylish
• Derivationally related forms:
stodginess
3. excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
- why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?
- a stodgy dinner party
• Syn:
stuffy
• Similar to:
conventional
• Derivationally related forms:
stuffiness (for: stuffy), stodginess

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  stuffy, fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(p)