stuffy 音标拼音: [st'ʌfi]
a . 闷热的,窒息的,乏味的,固步自封的,自以为是的
闷热的,窒息的,乏味的,固步自封的,自以为是的
stuffy adj 1 :
lacking fresh air ; "
a dusty airless attic "; "
the dreadfully close atmosphere "; "
hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke " [
synonym : {
airless }, {
close }, {
stuffy },
{
unaired }]
2 :
excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull ;
"
why is the middle class so stodgy ,
so utterly without a sense of humor ?"; "
a stodgy dinner party " [
synonym : {
stodgy },
{
stuffy }]
3 :
affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction ; "
a stuffy feeling in my chest "
Stuffy \
Stuff "
y \,
a .
1 .
Stout ;
mettlesome ;
resolute . [
Scot .] --
Jamieson .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Angry and obstinate ;
sulky . [
U .
S .]
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
Ill -
ventilated ;
close .
[
1913 Webster ]
255 Moby Thesaurus words for "
stuffy ":
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
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