{s} airless, lacking ventilation; having the respiratory passages blocked; stodgy, conservative, old-fashioned; pompous; dull; irritated, sulky
disapproval Stuffy people or institutions are formal and old-fashioned. Why were grown-ups always so stuffy and slow to recognize good ideas? a firm of lawyers in Lincoln's Inn, immensely stuffy and respectable
If it is stuffy in a place, it is unpleasantly warm and there is not enough fresh air. It was hot and stuffy in the classroom
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"