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stodg·y

(stŏj′ē)

adj. stodg·i·er, stodg·i·est

a. Dull, unimaginative, and commonplace. See Synonyms at dull.

b. Old-fashioned and stuffy: "Why is the middle-class so stodgy—so utterly without a sense of humor!" (Katherine Mansfield).

2. Indigestible and starchy; heavy: stodgy food.

3. Solidly built; stocky.

[From stodge, thick filling food, from stodge, to cram.]

stodg′i·ly adv.

stodg′i·ness n.

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stodgy

(ˈstɒdʒɪ)

adj, stodgier or stodgiest

1. (Cookery) (of food) heavy or uninteresting

2. excessively formal and conventional

[C19: from stodge]

ˈstodgily adv

ˈstodginess n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

stodg•y

(ˈstɒdʒ i)

adj. stodg•i•er, stodg•i•est.

1. dull or uninteresting; boring.

2. heavy, as food.

3. stocky; thickset.

4. unduly formal and traditional.

5. dull; graceless; inelegant: a stodgy business suit.

[1815–25]

stodg′i•ly, adv.

stodg′i•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	stodgy - heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full" indigestible - digested with difficulty
	2.	stodgy - (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life" fogyish, stick-in-the-mud, moss-grown, mossy unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"
	3.	stodgy - excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party" stuffy conventional - following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

stodgy

adjective

1. heavy, filling, substantial, leaden, starchy He was disgusted by the stodgy pizzas on sale in London.
heavy light, fluffy, insubstantial

2. dull, boring, stuffy, formal, tedious, tiresome, staid, unimaginative, turgid, uninspired, unexciting, ho-hum, heavy going, fuddy-duddy (informal), dull as ditchwater stodgy old fogies
dull interesting, exciting, stimulating, lively, fresh, fashionable, trendy (Brit. informal), up-to-date, animated, readable

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

stodgy

adjective

1. Lacking liveliness, charm, or surprise:

arid, aseptic, colorless, drab, dry, dull, earthbound, flat, flavorless, lackluster, lifeless, lusterless, matter-of-fact, pedestrian, prosaic, spiritless, sterile, unimaginative, uninspired.

2. Having a dense or viscous consistency:

gelatinous, heavy, thick.

3. Short, heavy, and solidly built:

blocky, chunky, compact, dumpy, heavyset, squat, stocky, stubby, stumpy, thick, thickset.

Translations

باهِت، غَيْر حَيَوي، غَيْر مُمْتِعمُكَوَّن من طَعام ثَقيل وَصَلْب

nezáživnýtěžký

kedeligtung

schwerfällig schwerverdaulich

lourd

laktató

andlaus, daufleguròungmeltur, òungur

nezáživný

stodgy

[ˈstɒdʒɪ] ADJ (stodgier (compar) (stodgiest (superl)))

1. [food] → indigesto

2. (fig) [book, style, person] → pesado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

stodgy

[ˈstɒdʒi] adj

[food, cake, pudding] → bourratif/ive, lourd(e)

(= stuffy) [book, style] → indigeste; [person] → barbant(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

stodgy

adj (+er) food → pampig (inf), → schwer; style → schwerfällig; subject → trocken; book → schwer verdaulich; person → langweilig, fad

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

stodgy

[ˈstɒdʒɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (food, book) → pesante, indigesto/a; (person) → pesante

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

stodge

(stodʒ) noun

heavy, solid food.

ˈstodgy adjective

1. (of meals etc) consisting of stodge. stodgy food.

2. (of people, books etc) dull; not lively.

ˈstodginess noun

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