'Stuffy' definitions:
Definition of 'stuffy'
From: WordNet
adjective
Lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke" [syn: airless, close, stuffy, unaired]
adjective
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]
adjective
Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest"
Definition of 'Stuffy'
From: GCIDE
- Stuffy \Stuff"y\, a.
- 1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. [Scot.] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. Ill-ventilated; close. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stuffy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accordant,
- airless,
- anal,
- arid,
- arrogant,
- authoritarian,
- bad,
- bad-smelling,
- barren,
- bigot,
- bigoted,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloated,
- bloodless,
- bombastic,
- borne,
- bourgeois,
- breathless,
- breezeless,
- cantankerous,
- censorious,
- characterless,
- close,
- closed,
- cold,
- colorless,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- constricted,
- contrary,
- conventional,
- corresponding,
- cramped,
- creedbound,
- cross-grained,
- dead,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- demure,
- difficult,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- earthbound,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- fanatical,
- fecal,
- fetid,
- flat,
- flatulent,
- fogyish,
- formal,
- formalistic,
- foul,
- froward,
- frowsty,
- frowsy,
- frowy,
- frowzy,
- fuddy-duddy,
- fulsome,
- funky,
- fusty,
- gamy,
- gassy,
- genteel,
- grandiloquent,
- graveolent,
- harmonious,
- heavy,
- hidebound,
- high,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- humid,
- ill-smelling,
- ill-ventilated,
- illiberal,
- important,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- inflated,
- insipid,
- insular,
- irascible,
- jejune,
- kosher,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- literal,
- little,
- little-minded,
- low-spirited,
- magisterial,
- malodorous,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmic,
- mid-Victorian,
- mildewed,
- mildewy,
- moldy,
- mouldy,
- muggy,
- mundane,
- musty,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- nearsighted,
- nidorous,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- odorous,
- offensive,
- old-fashioned,
- old-fogy,
- old-fogyish,
- old-maidish,
- olid,
- oppressive,
- ornery,
- orthodox,
- overmodest,
- pale,
- pallid,
- parochial,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- perverse,
- petty,
- plastic,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- pontifical,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prim,
- prissy,
- proper,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- provincial,
- prudish,
- puffy,
- purblind,
- puritanical,
- putrid,
- Quakerish,
- rancid,
- rank,
- ravaged with age,
- reasty,
- reasy,
- reechy,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- repulsive,
- rigid,
- rotten,
- sanctimonious,
- self-important,
- senile,
- shortsighted,
- slow,
- small,
- small-minded,
- smellful,
- smelling,
- smelly,
- smug,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- square,
- stagnant,
- staid,
- stale,
- stenchy,
- sterile,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- stifling,
- stilted,
- stinking,
- stodgy,
- stolid,
- straight,
- strait-laced,
- straitlaced,
- strong,
- suffocating,
- sulfurous,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- sultry,
- superficial,
- swollen,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- thick,
- traditionalist,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- unfanciful,
- ungenerous,
- unideal,
- unimaginative,
- uninspired,
- uninventive,
- unliberal,
- unlively,
- unoriginal,
- unpoetic,
- unromantic,
- unromanticized,
- unvented,
- unventilated,
- uptight,
- vapid,
- Victorian,
- vile,
- wayward,
- windless,
- wooden,
- wrongheaded