adj. Function: adjective
1 marked by a heavy oppressive quality of air FF1C; a stuffy room that needed airing FF1E;
Synonyms: airless, breathless, close, stifling, stivy, suffocating, sultry; compare HUMID , STIFLING 1
Related Words: heavy, oppressive, thick; stagnant; shut-up, unventilated
Contrasted Words: airy, breezy; open, ventilated; bracing, invigorating, refreshing, stimulating
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Synonyms: PRIM 1, genteel, priggish, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced, tight-laced, Victorian
Related Words: dull, humdrum, stodgy; hidebound, illiberal, narrow, narrow-minded
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Synonyms: POMPOUS 1, arrogant, bloated, important, magisterial, pontifical, puffy, self-important, wiggy