stodgy

adjective

  1. 1

    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

  2. 2

    (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned

    moss-grown ideas about family life

  3. 3

    heavy and starchy and hard to digest

    stodgy food

    a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full

Synonyms

Also useful for “stodgy”:Unscrambler