stodgy

1. 1.

   heavy and starchy and hard to digest

   “stodgy food”

   “a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full”

   Similarindigestible
2. 2.

   (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned

   “moss-grown ideas about family life”

   Synonymsfogyishmoss-grownmossystick-in-the-mud

   Similarunfashionable
3. 3.

   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”

   Synonymsstuffy

   Similarconventional

Other forms of stodgy

comparative or superlative

stodgier

comparative or superlative

stodgiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stodgy

What does stodgy mean?

stodgy means "heavy and starchy and hard to digest". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stodgy?

stodgy has 2 syllables: stod-gy. The stress falls on "stod". In IPA it is /ˈstɑdʒi/.

What is another word for stodgy?

Close synonyms include fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud, stuffy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stodgy a common word?

stodgy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.