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Adjective stuffy has 3 senses

• stuffy(s = adj.all) airless, close, unaired - lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke"
Derived form noun stuffiness₂

• stuffy(s = adj.all) stodgy - 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 stuffiness₃

• stuffy(s = adj.all) Array - affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest"
Derived form noun stuffiness₁

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stuffy

Quakerish, Victorian, accordant, airless, anal, arid, arrogant, authoritarian, bad, bad-smelling, barren, bigot, bigoted, blah, blank, bloated, bloodless, bombastic, borne, bourgeois, breathless, breezeless, cantankerous, censorious, characterless, close, closed, cold, colorless, compulsive, concordant, conformist, constricted, contrary, conventional, corresponding, cramped, creedbound, cross-grained, dead, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, difficult, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, earthbound, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, fanatical, fecal, fetid, flat, flatulent, fogyish, formal, formalistic, foul, froward, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fuddy-duddy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gassy, genteel, grandiloquent, graveolent, harmonious, heavy, hidebound, high, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, humid, ill-smelling, ill-ventilated, illiberal, important, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, inane, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inflated, insipid, insular, irascible, jejune, kosher, leaden, lifeless, literal, little, little-minded, low-spirited, magisterial, malodorous, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mid-Victorian, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, mouldy, muggy, mundane, musty, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, old-fashioned, old-fogy, old-fogyish, old-maidish, olid, oppressive, ornery, orthodox, overmodest, pale, pallid, parochial, pedantic, pedestrian, perverse, petty, plastic, plodding, pointless, poky, pompous, ponderous, pontifical, precisianistic, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prosaic, prosing, prosy, provincial, prudish, puffy, purblind, puritanical, putrid, rancid, rank, ravaged with age, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rigid, rotten, sanctimonious, self-important, senile, shortsighted, slow, small, small-minded, smellful, smelling, smelly, smug, solemn, spiritless, square, stagnant, staid, stale, stenchy, sterile, sticky, stiff, stiff-necked, stifling, stilted, stinking, stodgy, stolid, straight, strait-laced, straitlaced, strong, suffocating, sulfurous, sulky, sullen, sultry, superficial, swollen, tasteless, tedious, thick, traditionalist, tumid, turgid, uncatholic, uncharitable, unfanciful, ungenerous, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unliberal, unlively, unoriginal, unpoetic, unromantic, unromanticized, unvented, unventilated, uptight, vapid, vile, wayward, windless, wooden, wrongheaded

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Density

N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.

Heat

N heat, caloric, temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity, incalescence, incandescence, glow, flush, fever, hectic, phlogiston, fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze, bonfire, firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, wildfire, sheet of fire, lambent flame, devouring element, adiathermancy, recalescence, summer, dog days, canicular days, baking, heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat, sirocco, simoom, broiling sun, insolation, warming, sun, pyrology, thermology, thermotics, thermodynamics, thermometer, calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie, kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, British Thermal Unit, B, T, U, therm, quad, degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit, hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen, thermal, thermic, calorific, fervent, fervid, ardent, aglow, sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy, close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive, reeking, baking, red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning, hot, piping hot, like a furnace, like an oven, burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg, fiery, incandescent, incalescent, candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking, live, on fire, dazzling, in flames, blazing, in a blaze, alight, afire, ablaze, unquenched, unextinguished, smoldering, in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat, sudorific, sweltering, sweltered, blood hot, blood warm, warm as a toast, warm as wool, volcanic, plutonic, igneous, isothermal, isothermic, isotheral, not a breath of air, whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.

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