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Stodgy

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Adjective

1. stodgy

heavy and starchy and hard to digest

Example Sentences:
'stodgy food'
'a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full'

2. fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy

(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned

Example Sentences:
'moss-grown ideas about family life'

3. stodgy, stuffy

excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull

Example Sentences:
'why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?'
'a stodgy dinner party'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Stodgy

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adjectiveWord forms: stodgier or stodgiest
1. 
(of food) heavy or uninteresting
2. 
excessively formal and conventional

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Stodgy

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈstodgier or ˈstodgiest
1. 
heavy and unpalatable
said of food
2. 
heavily built; bulky and slow in movement
3. 
dull; tedious; uninteresting
4. 
drab, unfashionable, or unattractive
5. 
stubbornly old-fashioned; narrow and conventional

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Stodgy

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adj. stodg·i·er, stodg·i·est
1.
a. Dull, unimaginative, and commonplace. See Synonyms at dull.
b. Old-fashioned and stuffy: "Why is the middle-class so stodgyso utterly without a sense of humor!" (Katherine Mansfield).
2. Indigestible and starchy; heavy: stodgy food.
3. Solidly built; stocky.

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