stodgy
heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
of a thick, semisolid consistency; heavy, as food.
stocky; thick-set.
old-fashioned; unduly formal and traditional: a stodgy old gentleman.
dull; graceless; inelegant: a stodgy business suit.
Origin of stodgy
1Other words for stodgy
Opposites for stodgy
Other words from stodgy
- stodg·i·ly, adverb
- stodg·i·ness, noun
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How to use stodgy in a sentence
Buying Red Hat, a company known for an innovative open-source approach to computing, offered hope that IBM could shake up its stodgy culture and reclaim its reputation as a tech leader.
How the Slack/Salesforce deal stacks up to history’s other Big Tech acquisitions | Jeff | December 3, 2020 | FortuneBereft theatergoers clicked on, but the offerings often look stodgy.
With playhouses dark, interactive theater online is lighting things up | Peter Marks | October 29, 2020 | Washington PostApple now pays a quarterly dividend, a step Jobs resisted partly because he associated shareholder payments with stodgy companies that were past their prime.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is fulfilling another Steve Jobs vision | Rachel Schallom | August 24, 2020 | FortuneThere is none of the usual 'stodginess' of history in his chapters.
Fifty Years of Golf | Horace G. HutchinsonThough her feet and hands were small in the extreme, they could not counteract the effect of that betraying stodginess of figure.
Life on the Stage | Clara Morris
If she gave the whole village work, was it too far gone in its unspurred stodginess to be roused to carrying it out?
The Shuttle | Frances Hodgson BurnettBut it is this very stodginess that makes it, if you love Wordsworth, the perfect book where there can be only one.
The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rgen | Elizabeth von ArnimIn literature we have stodginess in style and decadence in morals, and vers libre, that is to say, no verse at all.
Your Negro Neighbor | Benjamin Brawley
British Dictionary definitions for stodgy
/ (ˈstɒdʒɪ) /
(of food) heavy or uninteresting
excessively formal and conventional
Origin of stodgy
1Derived forms of stodgy
- stodgily, adverb
- stodginess, noun
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