Stodgy
adjective
Heavy and hard to digest, usually describes food.
The pasta dish was a bit stodgy.
Often appears as...
- stodgy food
- stodgy meal
adjective
Lacking interest or excitement, usually describes people or things.
His lectures are stodgy and lack entertainment.
Often appears as...
- stodgy person
- stodgy lecturer
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Unwilling to change or innovate, generally describes an organization or methods.
The company has a stodgy approach to innovation.
Often appears as...
- stodgy company
- stodgy approach
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
adjective
Heavy and hard to digest, usually describes food.
The pasta dish was a bit stodgy.
Often appears as...
- stodgy food
- stodgy meal
adjective
Lacking interest or excitement, usually describes people or things.
His lectures are stodgy and lack entertainment.
Often appears as...
- stodgy person
- stodgy lecturer
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Unwilling to change or innovate, generally describes an organization or methods.
The company has a stodgy approach to innovation.
Often appears as...
- stodgy company
- stodgy approach
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Food Context
Use 'stodgy' when describing dense, heavy food that makes you feel full quickly.
I could only eat half of the stodgy bread before feeling full.
Pro Tip 2/3Digestion Focus
'Stodgy' implies that the food might cause discomfort due to its heaviness.
I avoid stodgy foods because they upset my stomach.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Compliment
Describing food as 'stodgy' generally suggests it is not enjoyable.
The meal was unimpressive; the pie especially was stodgy.
Pro Tip 1/3Food Context
Use 'stodgy' when describing dense, heavy food that makes you feel full quickly.
I could only eat half of the stodgy bread before feeling full.
Pro Tip 2/3Digestion Focus
'Stodgy' implies that the food might cause discomfort due to its heaviness.
I avoid stodgy foods because they upset my stomach.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Compliment
Describing food as 'stodgy' generally suggests it is not enjoyable.
The meal was unimpressive; the pie especially was stodgy.
Pro Tip 1/3Food Context
Use 'stodgy' when describing dense, heavy food that makes you feel full quickly.
I could only eat half of the stodgy bread before feeling full.
Pro Tip 2/3Digestion Focus
'Stodgy' implies that the food might cause discomfort due to its heaviness.
I avoid stodgy foods because they upset my stomach.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Compliment
Describing food as 'stodgy' generally suggests it is not enjoyable.
The meal was unimpressive; the pie especially was stodgy.
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Jimmy Wales: How a...
still a very completely safe, stodgy type of encyclopedia. Wikipedia, on the other hand, begins with a very radical idea, and that's for all of us to imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. And that's what we're doing.
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Let's simplify legal...
I've had this checked by the two top consumer credit lawyers in the country this is a real thing now I want one step further and said why do we have to stick with the stodgy lawyers and just have a paper document let's go online so many
Video examples
Jimmy Wales: How a...
still a very completely safe, stodgy type of encyclopedia. Wikipedia, on the other hand, begins with a very radical idea, and that's for all of us to imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. And that's what we're doing.
Video examples
Let's simplify legal...
I've had this checked by the two top consumer credit lawyers in the country this is a real thing now I want one step further and said why do we have to stick with the stodgy lawyers and just have a paper document let's go online so many
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Quote examples
Thomas Hoving
American Educator
When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.
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Feisal Abdul Rauf
Egyptian Theologian
When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.
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Edward Ruscha
American Artist
I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.
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Jemele Hill
American Journalist
Contrary to stodgy opinions, young men have a right to go out. They want to hang with their peers. They want to talk to women. They want to show off a little of their success. Nothing wrong with any of that - as long as they're careful.
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Don Willett
American Judge
I think people just find it remarkable that a high court justice would step out from behind the bench and have a persona that's not the traditional, stodgy, fuddy-duddy persona, but actually comes across as authentic and engaging.
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Ryan Holmes
Canadian Businessman
I'd like to think my company HootSuite is anything but a stodgy old-boys' club. As a social media company, our employees are by and large young, progressive and open-minded.
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Anna Quindlen
American Journalist
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
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Thomas Hoving
American Educator
When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.
Quote examples
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Egyptian Theologian
When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.
Quote examples
Edward Ruscha
American Artist
I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.
Quote examples
Jemele Hill
American Journalist
Contrary to stodgy opinions, young men have a right to go out. They want to hang with their peers. They want to talk to women. They want to show off a little of their success. Nothing wrong with any of that - as long as they're careful.
Quote examples
Don Willett
American Judge
I think people just find it remarkable that a high court justice would step out from behind the bench and have a persona that's not the traditional, stodgy, fuddy-duddy persona, but actually comes across as authentic and engaging.
Quote examples
Ryan Holmes
Canadian Businessman
I'd like to think my company HootSuite is anything but a stodgy old-boys' club. As a social media company, our employees are by and large young, progressive and open-minded.
Quote examples
Anna Quindlen
American Journalist
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
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