stuffy

stuff·y

S0824900 (stŭf′ē)adj. stuff·i·er, stuff·i·est 1. Lacking sufficient ventilation; close.2. Having the respiratory passages blocked: a stuffy nose.3. a. Dull and boring: a stuffy lecture.b. Rigidly adhering to conventional standards; strait-laced: "I went to one stuffy upper class dinner party on my first night & I go to another tonight" (Evelyn Waugh).

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stuff′i·ly adv.stuff′i·ness n.

stuffy

(ˈstʌfɪ) adj, stuffier or stuffiest1. lacking fresh air2. excessively dull, staid, or conventional3. (Physiology) (of the nasal passages) blocked with mucus ˈstuffily adv ˈstuffiness n

stuff•y

(ˈstʌf i)

adj. stuff•i•er, stuff•i•est. 1. close; poorly ventilated. 2. oppressive from lack of freshness: stuffy air. 3. blocked or stopped up: a stuffy nose. 4. dull or tedious. 5. self-important; pompous. 6. rigid or old-fashioned in attitudes, esp. in matters of personal behavior. [1545–55] stuff′i•ly, adv. stuff′i•ness, n.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	stuffy - lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke"airless, unaired, closeunventilated - not ventilated; "stuffy unventilated rooms"
	2.	stuffy - 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"stodgyconventional - following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
	3.	stuffy - affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest"obstructed - shut off to passage or view or hindered from action; "a partially obstructed passageway"; "an obstructed view"; "justice obstructed is not justice"

stuffy

adjective1. (Informal) staid, conventional, dull, old-fashioned, deadly, dreary, pompous, formal, prim, stilted, musty, stodgy, uninteresting, humourless, fusty, strait-laced, priggish, as dry as dust, old-fogeyish, niminy-piminy, prim and proper stuffy attitudes2. airless, stifling, oppressive, close, heavy, stale, suffocating, sultry, fetid, muggy, unventilated, fuggy, frowsty It was hot and stuffy in the classroom.
airless fresh, cool, airy, breezy, pleasant, draughty, gusty, well-ventilated3. blocked, congested, stuffed up, bunged up Aromatic capsules are great for easing the discomfort of a stuffy nose.

stuffy

adjective1. Oppressive due to a lack of fresh air:airless, close, stifling.2. Arousing no interest or curiosity:boring, drear, dreary, dry, dull, humdrum, irksome, monotonous, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, weariful, wearisome, weary.3. Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form:bluenosed, genteel, old-maidish, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, strait-laced, Victorian.Idiom: prim and proper.

Translations

乏味的固步自封的闷热

stuffy

(ˈstafi) adjective1. (of a room etc) too warm, and lacking fresh air. Why do you sit in this stuffy room all day? 悶熱 闷热2. formal and dull. Must we visit those stuffy people? 固步自封的 固步自封的ˈstuffily adverb 自以為是地，悶熱地 自以为是地，闷热地 ˈstuffiness noun 悶熱 闷热

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