stodgy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: stodg=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

stodgy, a. 

 Wet.  G. Eliot.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stodgy, adj. (stodgier, stodgiest)
1 (of food) heavy and indigestible.
2 dull and uninteresting.
3 (of a literary style etc.) turgid and dull.

Derivative

stodgily adv. stodginess n.

THESAURUS

stodgy

Spartan, adhesive, aloof, amylaceous, apathetic, arid, banausic, barren, blah, bland, blank, bloodless, boring, characterless, clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, cold, colorless, curdled, dead, deadly, detached, dim, dismal, doughy, dowdy, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, flat, fogyish, frumpish, frumpy, fuddy-duddy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, inane, indifferent, indomitable, inexcitable, insipid, inspissated, jejune, jelled, jellied, jellylike, leaden, lifeless, long-suffering, low-spirited, matter-of-fact, monotone, monotonous, mucilaginous, old-fogy, old-fogyish, out-of-date, outmoded, pale, pallid, pasty, patient, pedantic, pedestrian, phlegmatic, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, ravaged with age, resigned, ropy, self-controlled, senile, slabby, slimy, slithery, slow, solemn, spiritless, starchy, sterile, sticky, stiff, stoic, stolid, stringy, stuffy, superficial, syrupy, tacky, tasteless, tedious, tenacious, thick, thickened, tiresome, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, turgid, unassailable, unconcerned, unexciting, unimaginative, uninteresting, unlively, vapid, viscid, viscose, viscous, weighty, wooden