adjective
- Heavy and starchy and hard to digest.
- usage: "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
- Used pejoratively. ( out of fashion; old fashioned)
- usage: "moss-grown ideas about family life"
- synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud
- Excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull.
- usage: "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor"; "a stodgy dinner party"
- synonyms: stuffy
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