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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. heavy and starchy and hard to digest;
- Example: "stodgy food"
- Example: "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"

2. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned;
- Example: "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;
- Example: "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"
- Example: "a stodgy dinner party"
[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lifeless, long-suffering, low-spirited, matter-of-fact, monotone, monotonous, mucilaginous, old-fogy, old-fogyish, out-of-date, outmoded, pale, pallid, pasty, patient, pedantic, pedestrian, phlegmatic, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, ravaged with age, resigned, ropy,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