stuffy

Plural: stuffies

Adjective Satellite

• lacking fresh air
  • "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke"
• excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
• affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction
  • "a stuffy feeling in my chest"

Adj

• Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
• Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
• Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
• Angry and obstinate; sulky.
• Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
• Stout; sturdy.

Noun

• Synonym of stuffed toy.

Adjective

• Poorly ventilated, lacking fresh air; also, formal or conventional.

Examples

• I can’t smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose.
• Let’s go outside – it’s getting stuffy in here.
• The game parlor became stuffy as the Words With Friends match stretched into its third hour.
• The stuffy professor droned on as the class lost interest.

Synonyms

airless, close, stodgy, unaired, fusty, oppressive, stuffed toy

Related Words

stuffed shirt, STUFFILY

Anagrams of stuffy