stodgy
adjective
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
heavy and starchy and hard to digest
stodgy food
Related & opposite
- indigestible similar to
Sense 2 adjective
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
moss-grown ideas about family life
Related & opposite
- stodginess derivation
- unfashionable similar to
Sense 3 adjective
excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?
Related & opposite
- stodginess derivation
- conventional similar to
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | indigestible |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | stodginess |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | unfashionable |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | stodginess |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | conventional |