STUFFY meaning: Lacking fresh air; overly formal

We found 29 dictionaries that define the word stuffy:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

stuffy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stuffy: Merriam-Webster
stuffy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
stuffy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
stuffy: Collins English Dictionary
stuffy: Vocabulary.com
Stuffy, stuffy: Wordnik
stuffy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
stuffy: Wiktionary
stuffy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
stuffy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
stuffy: Infoplease Dictionary
stuffy: Dictionary.com
stuffy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Stuffy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Stuffy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
stuffy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
stuffy: Rhymezone
stuffy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
STUFFY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
Stuffy: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
stuffy: FreeDictionary.org
stuffy: Mnemonic Dictionary
stuffy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

stuffy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

stuffy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

stuffy, stuffy, stuffy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
▸ adjective:  Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
▸ adjective:  Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
▸ adjective:  (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
▸ adjective:  Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
▸ adjective:  (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.
▸ noun:  (US, Canada, colloquial, often childish) Synonym of stuffed toy

Similar:

stodgy, close, conventional, airless, unaired, unventilated, fuggy, fusty, cloggy, clogged, more...

Opposite:

relaxed, laid-back, informal

Types:

congested, clogged, blocked, stopped up, plugged, more...

Phrases:

stuffy nose, stuffy air, stuffy atmosphere, opposite of stuffy, less stuffy, more...

Adjectives:

little, subsequent, poor, bloody, real, same, damned, damp, old, awful, observed

Colors:

beige, taupe, olive, burgundy, mustard, more...