stuffy
pronunciation
How to pronounce stuffy in British English:
UK [ˈstʌfi]
How to pronounce stuffy in American English:
US [ˈstʌfi]
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- Adjective:
- lacking fresh air
- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
Word Origin
- stuffy (adj.)
- 1550s, "full of stuff, full of substance" (obsolete); 1831 as "poorly ventilated;" from stuff (n.) + -y (2). Sense of "pompous, smug" is from 1895. Related: Stuffily; stuffiness.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Stuffy european institutions were not supposed to be as nimble .
- 2. This was september . The bookstore , hot and stuffy .
- 3. It all seems a bit affected , stuffy , put on - the obsession with wagner and gothic architecture .
- 4. Add a nobel prize and suddenly other people start acting like he 's so cool for doing things stuffy old scientists aren 't supposed to do .
- 5. With none of the homophobic overtones of her father , jean-marie , ms le pen comes across as less stuffy and outdated and more in touch with contemporary attitudes .