Stuffy

Quick meaning: Stuffy is an adjective meaning Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.

Meaning

Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.

More Meanings

1. Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
2. Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
3. (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
4. Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
5. (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.
6. (US, Canada, colloquial, often childish) Synonym of stuffed toy.

Example Sentences

Let’s go outside – it’s getting stuffy in here.

I can’t smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose.

The stuffy professor droned on as the class lost interest.

We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin our afternoons.

Word Forms

• stuffier
• stuffiest
• stuffies
• stuffie

Synonyms for stuffy

Depending on context, synonyms include fusty, oppressive, close, conventional, stodgy, airless.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stodgy, close, unventilated, airless, conventional, suffocating.

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