ADJECTIVE | all | stuffy, airless, close, unaired | lacking fresh air |
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all | stuffy, stodgy | excessively conventional and unimaginative / unimaginative and hence dull / dull | |
all | stuffy | affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction |
Sounds | stah'fiy | |
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Rhymes | apostrophe ... typography: 53 rhymes with fiy... |
Meaning | lacking fresh air. | |
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Example | "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke" | |
Synonyms | airless, close, unaired | |
Broader | unventilated | not ventilated |
Spanish | cargado, cerrado | |
Nouns | stuffiness | the quality of being close and poorly ventilated |
Meaning | excessively conventional and unimaginative / unimaginative and hence dull / dull. | |
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Synonym | stodgy | |
Broader | conventional | Following accepted customs and proprieties |
Spanish | estirado, remilgado | |
Catalan | escrupulós, estirat | |
Nouns | stuffiness | dull and pompous gravity |
Adverbs | stuffily | in a stuffy manner |
Meaning | affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction. | |
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Example | "a stuffy feeling in my chest" | |
Broader | obstructed | Shut off to passage or view or hindered from action |
Nouns | stuffiness | state of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat |
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