stodgy meaning and definition

STODGY adjective

Definition of stodgy (adjective)

1. heavy and starchy and hard to digest
   • "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
2. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
   • "moss-grown ideas about family life"
   • synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud
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"
   • synonyms: stuffy