What does stodgy mean?
Stodgy means Dull, old-fashioned..
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/ˈstɒ.d͡ʒi/ · adjective
Dull, old-fashioned..
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.
"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."
“. . . 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.”
The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.
Use stodgy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stodgy means Dull, old-fashioned..
Common synonyms include conventional, stuffy, mossy, stick-in-the-mud.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I gave up trying to get that stodgy club to try anything new.
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