stuffy
/ˈstʌfi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
adj
adj
Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
Example Sentences
- "I can’t smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose."
- "Let’s go outside – it’s getting stuffy in here."
- "Abby Jimenez Like my life was a stuffy room, and you’re the breeze that came in when the window opened."
- "If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity."
- "We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin our afternoons."
- "The stuffy professor droned on as the class lost interest."
Etymology
Etymology tree English stuff Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English stuffy From stuff + -y.
Usage
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- Colloquial