What is the meaning of stodgy?

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"
  • 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"
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APAWordNet. (2010). stodgy. Retrieved September 21, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/stodgy/definitions/1184438
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