stodgy (redirected from stodgiest)

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 [ˈstɒdʒɪ]

adj stodgier, stodgiest

1. (Cookery) (of food) heavy or uninteresting

2. excessively formal and conventional

[from stodge]

stodgily  adv

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 He was disgusted by the stodgy pizzas on sale in London.
heavy light, fluffy, insubstantial

2. dull, boring, stuffy, formal, tedious, tiresome, staid, unimaginative, turgid, uninspired, unexciting, ho-hum, heavy going, fuddy-duddy (informal), dull as ditchwater stodgy old fogies
dull interesting, exciting, stimulating, lively, fresh, fashionable, trendy (Brit. informal), up-to-date, animated, readable

Translations

stodgy [ˈstɒdʒɪ] ADJ (stodgier (compar) (stodgiest (superl)))

1. [food] → indigesto

2. (fig) [book, style, person] → pesado

stodgy [ˈstɒdʒi] adj

[food, cake, pudding] → bourratif/ive, lourd(e)

(= stuffy) [book, style] → indigeste; [person] → barbant(e)

stodgy

adj (+er) food → pampig (inf), → schwer; style → schwerfällig; subject → trocken; book → schwer verdaulich; person → langweilig, fad

stodgy [ˈstɒdʒɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (food, book) → pesante, indigesto/a; (person) → pesante