adjective (stuffier, stuffiest)
1 (of a building, room, etc.) warm in an unpleasant way and without enough fresh air:
a stuffy room / atmosphere * 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
stuffiness noun [U]
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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