stodgy

(adjective)

adjective

1. heavy and starchy and hard to digest

- stodgy food

- a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full

Similar word(s): indigestible

2. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned

Similar word(s): unfashionable, unstylish, fogyish, mossy

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

Similar word(s): conventional, stuffy

Sentences with stodgy as an adjective:

- I gave up trying to get that stodgy club to try anything new.