stuffy

About 0.74 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.

   I can’t smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose.

2. adjective Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
3. adjective Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
4. adjective Angry and obstinate; sulky.
5. adjective Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.

   The stuffy professor droned on as the class lost interest.

6. adjective Stout; sturdy.
7. noun Synonym of stuffed toy.

Similar words

stodgy close unventilated airless conventional unaired suffocating thick warm hot

Often followed by

and nose room in little old atmosphere rooms air

Word family

stuffier stuffiest stuffily stuffiness stuffinesses