stuffy
US: /ˈstəfi/
UK: /stˈʌfi/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
stuffy /'stʌfi/- tính từ
- thiếu không khí, ngột ngạt
- nghẹt (mũi), tắc (mũi)
- có mùi mốc
- room that smells stuffy: phòng có mùi mốc
- hay giận, hay dỗi
- hẹp hòi
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (thông tục) buồn tẻ, chán ngắt
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (thông tục) bảo thủ; cổ lỗ sĩ
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective (stuffier, stuffiest)1 (of a building, room, etc.) warm in an unpleasant way and without enough fresh air: a stuffy room / atmosphere + It gets very hot and stuffy in here in summer.
2 (informal, disapproving) very serious, formal, boring or old-fashioned: a stuffy, formal family + plain, stuffy clothes
stuffiness noun [U]
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 close, airless, unventilated, oppressive, stifling, suffocating, stale, musty, fusty, mouldy, mildewy, muggy, fetid or foetid, frowzy or frouzy or frowsy, Brit frowsty:
It was stuffy in the ancient tomb.
2 pompous, pedantic, self-important, self-centred, stodgy, old-fogyish or old-fogeyish, old-fashioned, strait-laced, staid, conventional, prim (and proper), priggish, niminy-piminy, stilted, stiff, rigid, Colloq fuddy-duddy, uptight:
What a bore to be trapped for an entire evening with those stuffy old codgers!
Concise dictionary
stuffier|stuffiest'stʌfɪadj.
+lacking fresh air
+excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
+affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction
