stodgy

[ stoj-ee ]
/ ˈstɒdʒ i /
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adjective, stodg·i·er, stodg·i·est.

heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
of a thick, semisolid consistency; heavy, as food.
stocky; thick-set.
old-fashioned; unduly formal and traditional: a stodgy old gentleman.
dull; graceless; inelegant: a stodgy business suit.

Origin of stodgy

First recorded in 1815–25; stodge + -y1

OTHER WORDS FROM stodgy

stodg·i·ly, adverb stodg·i·ness, noun

Words nearby stodgy

stockton-on-tees, stockwood, stocky, stockyard, stodge, stodgy, stoep, stogy, stoic, stoical, stoichiology

Words related to stodginess

drabness, dreariness, flatness, dryness, sameness, insipidness, familiarity, routine, vapidity, sterility, tedium, weariness, blandness, tediousness, slowness, insipidity, boredom, staleness, aridity

Example sentences from the Web for stodginess

  • There is none of the usual 'stodginess' of history in his chapters.

    Fifty Years of Golf |Horace G. Hutchinson

  • In literature we have stodginess in style and decadence in morals, and vers libre, that is to say, no verse at all.

    Your Negro Neighbor |Benjamin Brawley

  • His theatre is beginning to pander to foreign tastes, to be ashamed of itself, to take on respectability and stodginess.

    Rosinante to the Road Again |John Dos Passos

British Dictionary definitions for stodginess

stodgy
/ (ˈstɒdʒɪ) /

adjective stodgier or stodgiest

(of food) heavy or uninteresting
excessively formal and conventional

Derived forms of stodgy

stodgily, adverb stodginess, noun

Word Origin for stodgy

C19: from stodge