Word Study
stodgy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective stodgy has 3 senses
- stodgy(s = adj.all) Array - heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
- stodgy(s = adj.all) fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud - (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life" Derived form noun stodginess1
- stodgy(s = adj.all) stuffy - 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" Derived form noun stodginess1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stodgy, adj. (stodgier, stodgiest)
1 (of food) heavy and indigestible.
2 dull and uninteresting.
3 (of a literary style etc.) turgid and dull.
1 (of food) heavy and indigestible.
2 dull and uninteresting.
3 (of a literary style etc.) turgid and dull.
Derivative
stodgily adv. stodginess n.
THESAURUS
stodgy
Spartan, adhesive, aloof, amylaceous, apathetic, arid, banausic, barren, blah, bland, blank, bloodless, boring, characterless, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, cold, colorless, curdled, dead, deadly, detached, dim, dismal, doughy, dowdy, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, flat, fogyish, frumpish, frumpy, fuddy-duddy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, inane, indifferent, indomitable, inexcitable, insipid, inspissated, jejune, jelled, jellied, jellylike, leaden, lifeless, long-suffering, low-spirited, matter-of-fact, monotone, monotonous, mucilaginous, old-fogy, old-fogyish, out-of-date, outmoded, pale, pallid, pasty, patient, pedantic, pedestrian, phlegmatic, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, ravaged with age, resigned, ropy, self-controlled, senile, slabby, slimy, slithery, slow, solemn, spiritless, starchy, sterile, sticky, stiff, stoic, stolid, stringy, stuffy, superficial, syrupy, tacky, tasteless, tedious, tenacious, thick, thickened, tiresome, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, turgid, unassailable, unconcerned, unexciting, unimaginative, uninteresting, unlively, vapid, viscid, viscose, viscous, weighty, wooden
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