Stodgy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stodgy \Stodg"y\, a.
     Wet. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.
     [1913 Webster] Stoechiology

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  stodgy
       adj 1: (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned;
              "moss-grown ideas about family life" [syn: {fogyish},
              {moss-grown}, {mossy}, {stick-in-the-mud(p)}]
       2: 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: {stuffy}]
       [also: {stodgiest}, {stodgier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  141 Moby Thesaurus words for "stodgy":
     Spartan, adhesive, aloof, amylaceous, apathetic, arid, banausic,
     barren, blah, bland, blank, bloodless, boring, characterless,
     clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, cold, colorless, curdled,
     dead, deadly, detached, dim, dismal, doughy, dowdy, draggy,
     drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete,
     elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, flat, fogyish, frumpish,
     frumpy, fuddy-duddy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey,
     glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike,
     gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, inane,
     indifferent, indomitable, inexcitable, insipid, inspissated,
     jejune, jelled, jellied, jellylike, leaden, lifeless,
     long-suffering, low-spirited, matter-of-fact, monotone, monotonous,
     mucilaginous, old-fogy, old-fogyish, out-of-date, outmoded, pale,
     pallid, pasty, patient, pedantic, pedestrian, phlegmatic, plodding,
     pointless, poky, ponderous, ravaged with age, resigned, ropy,
     self-controlled, senile, slabby, slimy, slithery, slow, solemn,
     spiritless, starchy, sterile, sticky, stiff, stoic, stolid,
     stringy, stuffy, superficial, syrupy, tacky, tasteless, tedious,
     tenacious, thick, thickened, tiresome, tough, tremelloid,
     tremellose, turgid, unassailable, unconcerned, unexciting,
     unimaginative, uninteresting, unlively, vapid, viscid, viscose,
     viscous, weighty, wooden