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stuffy
adjective
1 stuffy
Lacking fresh air:
— Hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke.
synonyms: airless, close, unaired.
Roget 321:
dense,
solid;
solidified
etc.
v.;
caseous;
pukka†;
coherent,
cohesive
etc.
46;
compact,
close,
serried,
thickset;
substantial,
massive,
lumpish†;
impenetrable,
impermeable,
nonporous,
imporous†;
incompressible;
constipated;
concrete
etc.
(hard)
323;
knotted,
knotty;
gnarled;
crystalline,
crystallizable;
thick,
grumous†,
stuffy.
undissolved,
unmelted†,
unliquefied†,
unthawed†.
indivisible,
indiscerptible†,
infrangible†,
indissolvable†,
indissoluble,
insoluble,
infusible.
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Roget 382:
hot,
warm,
mild,
genial,
tepid,
lukewarm,
unfrozen;
thermal,
thermic;
calorific;
fervent,
fervid;
ardent;
aglow.
sunny,
torrid,
tropical,
estival†,
canicular†,
steamy;
close,
sultry,
stifling,
stuffy,
suffocating,
oppressive;
reeking
etc.
v.;
baking
etc.
384.
red hot,
white hot,
smoking hot,
burning
etc.
v..
hot,
piping hot;
like a furnace,
like an oven;
burning,
hot as fire,
hot as pepper;
hot enough to roast an ox,
hot enough to boil an egg.
fiery;
incandescent,
incalescent†;
candent†,
ebullient,
glowing,
smoking;
live;
on fire;
dazzling
etc.
v.;
in flames,
blazing,
in a blaze;
alight,
afire,
ablaze;
unquenched,
unextinguished†;
smoldering;
in a heat,
in a glow,
in a fever,
in a perspiration,
in a sweat;
sudorific†;
sweltering,
sweltered;
blood hot,
blood warm;
warm as a toast,
warm as wool.
volcanic,
plutonic,
igneous;
isothermal†,
isothermic†,
isotheral†.
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2 stuffy
Excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull.
synonym: stodgy.
3 stuffy
Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction.
Moby thesaurus: Quakerish, Victorian, accordant, airless, anal, arid, arrogant, authoritarian, bad, bad-smelling, barren, bigot, bigoted, blah, blank, bloated, bloodless, bombastic, borne, bourgeois, breathless, breezeless, cantankerous, censorious, characterless, close, closed, cold, colorless, compulsive, concordant, conformist, constricted, contrary, conventional, corresponding, cramped, creedbound, cross-grained, dead, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, difficult, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, earthbound, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, fanatical, fecal, fetid, flat, flatulent, fogyish, formal, formalistic, foul, froward, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fuddy-duddy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gassy, genteel, grandiloquent, graveolent, harmonious, heavy, hidebound, high, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, humid, ill-smelling, ill-ventilated, illiberal, important, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, inane, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inflated, insipid, insular, irascible, jejune, kosher, leaden, lifeless, literal, little, little-minded, low-spirited, magisterial, malodorous, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mid-Victorian, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, mouldy, muggy, mundane, musty, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, old-fashioned, old-fogy, old-fogyish, old-maidish, olid, oppressive, ornery, orthodox, overmodest, pale, pallid, parochial, pedantic, pedestrian, perverse, petty, plastic, plodding, pointless, poky, pompous, ponderous, pontifical, precisianistic, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prosaic, prosing, prosy, provincial, prudish, puffy, purblind, puritanical, putrid, rancid, rank, ravaged with age, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rigid, rotten, sanctimonious, self-important, senile, shortsighted, slow, small, small-minded, smellful, smelling, smelly, smug, solemn, spiritless, square, stagnant, staid, stale, stenchy, sterile, sticky, stiff, stiff-necked, stifling, stilted, stinking, stodgy, stolid, straight, strait-laced, straitlaced, strong, suffocating, sulfurous, sulky, sullen, sultry, superficial, swollen, tasteless, tedious, thick, traditionalist, tumid, turgid, uncatholic, uncharitable, unfanciful, ungenerous, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unliberal, unlively, unoriginal, unpoetic, unromantic, unromanticized, unvented, unventilated, uptight, vapid, vile, wayward, windless, wooden, wrongheaded ... show more.
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