stuffy

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

stuffy [stuffy stuffier stuffiest] BrE [ˈstʌfi] NAmE [ˈstʌfi] adjective (stuff·ier, stuffi·est)
1. (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.
2. (informal, disapproving)very serious, formal, boring or old-fashioned
•a stuffy, formal family
•plain, stuffy clothes
3. (especially NAmE)if you have a stuffy nose, your nose is blocked because you have a cold
Derived Word: ↑stuffiness

Example Bank:
•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.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  stodgy, airless, close, unaired