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stodgy

[ stoj-ee ]

adjective

, stodg·i·er, stodg·i·est.
  1. heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring:

    a stodgy Victorian novel.

    Synonyms: prosaic, stuffy, tiresome

    Antonyms: exciting, lively

  2. of a thick, semisolid consistency; heavy, as food.
  3. stocky; thick-set.
  4. old-fashioned; unduly formal and traditional:

    a stodgy old gentleman.

  5. dull; graceless; inelegant:

    a stodgy business suit.



stodgy

/ ˈstɒdʒɪ /

adjective

  1. (of food) heavy or uninteresting
  2. excessively formal and conventional
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈstodginess, noun
  • ˈstodgily, adverb
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Other Words From

  • stodgi·ly adverb
  • stodgi·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stodgy1

First recorded in 1815–25; stodge + -y 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stodgy1

C19: from stodge
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Example Sentences

Even NBC’s stodgy Law & Order launched its own true-crime anthology, with a season on the Menendez brothers starring Edie Falco.

From Time

The once stodgy Television Academy, which votes on the Emmys, continued its recent trend of recognizing new hits and zeitgeist-capturing programming.

People over profitSteve Hyde, CEO of 360xec, talked about the coronavirus crisis exposing companies who had “camouflaged” stodgy, legacy-based leadership structures.

From Digiday

It was, he says, “a stodgy and old-fashioned discipline” when he entered it in the 1980s.

“I guess I felt it to be stodgy, self-satisfied, maybe a little dull,” he confesses.

My first thought was, “Wow, what an incredibly bold purchase for a stodgy auto exec.”

The mix of small, stodgy businesses and glamorous retailers worked for another decade—until 2009, when the bottom fell out again.

And of course, the cars that we mostly know them for: streamlined, a little stodgy, and very much of their era.

Hoosh is a stodgy, porridge-like mixture of pemmican, dried biscuit and water, brought to the boil and served hot.

Nothing can be more stodgy, more wearisome, more unprofitable, more away from all the finer ends of dramatic art.

In fact he was a publican who was bound to serve stodgy food as well as exhilarating drink.

They're so stodgy and unconvincing and as out-of-date as tunes in music.

Well, I'm not stodgy any longer, Esme Falconer; you've reformed me.

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