stodgy

stodgy /'stɔdʤii/
  • tính từ
    • khó tiêu, nặng bụng (thức ăn)
    • đầy ních, căng nứt
    • quá nhiều chi tiết, nặng nề, nặng trịch; buồn tẻ, tẻ nhạt (sách, văn)

Xem thêm: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(p), stuffy



stodgy

Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • heavy and starchy and hard to digest

    stodgy food

    a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full

  • (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(p)

    moss-grown ideas about family life

  • excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; stuffy

    why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?

    a stodgy dinner party


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

stodgier|stodgiest
syn.: fogyish moss-grown mossy stick-in-the-mud(p) stuffy