[syn: stodgy, stuffy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stodgy \Stodg"y\, a.
Wet. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.
[1913 Webster] Stoechiology
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stodgy
adj 1: heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a
stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
2: (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-
grown ideas about family life" [syn: fogyish, moss-grown,
mossy, stick-in-the-mud(p), stodgy]
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: stodgy,
stuffy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
141 Moby Thesaurus words for "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mucilaginous, old-fogy, old-fogyish, out-of-date, outmoded, pale,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