stuffy
adjective/ˈstʌfi/
/ˈstʌfi/
(comparative stuffier, superlative stuffiest)
- (of a building, room, etc.) warm in an unpleasant way and without enough fresh air
- a stuffy room
- It gets very hot and stuffy in here in summer.
Extra Examples- It gets really stuffy in here in summer.
- My parents are being a bit stuffy about me living in London on my own.
- She had always seemed so stuffy and plain.
- The room was stuffy with the smell of socks and sweat.
- (informal, disapproving) very serious, formal, boring or old-fashioned
- a stuffy, formal family
- plain, stuffy clothes
- (especially North American English) if you have a stuffy nose, your nose is blocked because you have a cold
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