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stuffy
[stuhf-ee]
adjective
close; poorly ventilated.
a stuffy room.
oppressive from lack of freshness.
stuffy air; a stuffy odor.
lacking in interest, as writing or discourse.
Synonyms:affected with a sensation of obstruction in the respiratory passages.
a stuffy nose.
dull or tedious; boring.
Synonyms:self-important; pompous.
Synonyms:rigid or strait-laced in attitudes, especially in matters of personal behavior.
Synonyms:old-fashioned; conservative.
Synonyms:ill-tempered; sulky.
stuffy
/ ˈʌɪ /
adjective
lacking fresh air
excessively dull, staid, or conventional
(of the nasal passages) blocked with mucus
Other 51Թ Forms
- stuffily adverb
- stuffiness noun
- unstuffily adverb
- unstuffiness noun
- unstuffy adjective
- ˈٳܴڴھ adverb
- ˈٳܴڴھԱ noun
Example Sentences
How delightfully ironic that Mary and her avant-garde charm, which was once polarizing and niche to the film’s stuffier early critics, were finally finding a wider audience.
Everyone will be thrilled to know that the van is solar-power ventilated so the dogs are in wonderful shape and not locked in a stuffy car.
Although he’s supposed to be a stuffy neurosurgeon, Dr. Roth wears furry bucket hats and yoga pants.
Clover scooped up a few stuffed animals, but can’t stop thinking about the one they left behind: Caravaggio the lamb, their first stuffy.
Yet in the stuffy room at Stansted, there was not much in Zelensky's tone that suggested he was interested in making nice.
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