stodgy (redirected from stodgier)

stodg·y  (stj)

adj. stodg·i·er, stodg·i·est

1.

a. Dull, unimaginative, and commonplace.

b. Prim or pompous; stuffy: "Why is the middle-class so stodgyso utterly without a sense of humor!" (Katherine Mansfield). See Synonyms at dull.

2. Indigestible and starchy; heavy: stodgy food.

3. Solidly built; stocky.

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[From stodge, thick filling food, from stodge, to cram.]

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stodgi·ly adv.

stodgi·ness n.

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stodgy

Adjective

[stodgier, stodgiest]

1. (of food) full of starch and very filling

2. (of a person) dull, serious, or excessively formal [from stodge]

stodginess n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	stodgy - heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full" indigestible - digested with difficulty
	2.	stodgy - (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life" fogyish, stick-in-the-mud, moss-grown, mossy unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"
	3.	stodgy - 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" stuffy conventional - following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

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stodgy

adjective 1. heavy, filling, substantial, leaden, starchy << OPPOSITE light

adjective 2. dull, boring, stuffy, formal, tedious, tiresome, staid, unimaginative, turgid, uninspired, unexciting, ho-hum, heavy going, fuddy-duddy (informal) dull as ditchwater << OPPOSITE exciting

Translations

stodgy [ˈstɔdʒɪ] adj → indigesto, pesado

stodgy [ˈstɔdʒɪ] adj → bourratif/ive, lourd(e)

stodgy [ˈstɔdʒɪ] adj (food) → pampig (inf) → schwer

stodgy [ˈstɔdʒɪ] adj → pesante, indigesto/a