stuffyadjective
uk/ˈstʌf.i/us/ˈstʌf.i/disapprovingstuffy adjective (WITHOUT AIR)
A stuffy room or building is unpleasant because it has no fresh air:
a stuffy office
It's really hot and stuffy in here - let's open the window.
The bedroom gets a little stuffy in the summer.
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Hot & heat
- beat
- blistering
- boil
- boiling
- burning
- closeness
- dog days
- fug
- heat
- heating
- heatwave
- mirage
- overheat
- red-hot
- sizzling
- steaming
- swelter
- sweltering
- thermo-
- torrid
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stuffy adjective (FORMAL)
old-fashioned, formal, and boring:
Sir William had the ability to conduct proceedings in a dignified manner without ever becoming stuffy.
She is trying to promote a less stuffy image of librarians.
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Tedious and uninspiring
- anonymous
- antiseptic
- banal
- be (as) dull as ditchwater idiom
- bland
- boring
- drab
- earthbound
- flat-footed
- lifeless
- middle-aged
- mind-numbing
- monochrome
- monotonous
- mouldy
- stolid
- tedious
- threadbare
- tired
- tiresome
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US If your nose is stuffy or you have a stuffy nose, your nose is blocked with mucus, usually because you have a cold.
stuffily
adverb uk/ˈstʌf.əl.i/us/ˈstʌf.əl.i/
stuffiness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈstʌf.i.nəs/us/ˈstʌf.i.nəs/