Stodgy

Quick meaning: Stodgy is an adjective meaning Dull, old-fashioned.

Meaning

Dull, old-fashioned.

More Meanings

1. (of food) Having a thick, semi-solid consistency; glutinous; heavy on the stomach.
2. (dated) Badly put together.

Example Sentences

I gave up trying to get that stodgy club to try anything new.

Safer! Good lord! what could you have safer than a stodgy second-rate boarding-house in Hapsburg Square? The place drones respectability.

“. . . Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy—so utterly without a sense of humour! My dear, it's only by a fluke that I am here at all—Norman being the protective fluke.”

"What's the matter with you?" — "Nothing. I'm sorry to be so damned emotional, but for six months I've been starved for beauty." — "You used to be so matter of fact. It's very interesting to hear you say that." — "Damn it all, I don't want to be interesting," laughed Philip. "Let's go and have a stodgy tea."

Word Forms

• stodgier
• stodgiest

Synonyms for stodgy

Depending on context, synonyms include conventional, stuffy, mossy, moss-grown, fogyish, nonmodern.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stuffy, fogyish, nonmodern, mossy, moss-grown, conventional.

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