adjective
- Lacking fresh air.
- usage: "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke"
- 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: stodgy
- Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction.
- usage: "a stuffy feeling in my chest"
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