stodgy

Adjective
  1. Heavy and starchy and hard to digest (synset 301186980)
    "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
    similar to: indigestible - digested with difficulty
  2. (used pejoratively) out of fashion;
    Old fashioned (synset 300977888)
    "moss-grown ideas about family life"
    similar to: unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion
    same as: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud
  3. Excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull (synset 300608724)
    "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"
    similar to: conventional - following accepted customs and proprieties
    same as: stuffy

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