STUFFY


Meaning of STUFFY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ stʌfi ]

( stuffier, stuffiest)

1.

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.

ADJ [ disapproval ]

2.

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.

ADJ

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