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stuffy

/ˈstʌfi/

stuffy adjective: poorly ventilated; partially plugged.

Adjective

stuffy (comparative stuffier, superlative stuffiest)

  1. Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
    • I can’t smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose.
    • Let’s go outside – it’s getting stuffy in here.
    Synonyms:
    fusty
  2. Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
    • Abby Jimenez
      Like my life was a stuffy room, and you’re the breeze that came in when the window opened.
    • If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered...1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358
    Synonyms:
    oppressive
  3. Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
  4. (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
  5. Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
    • The stuffy professor droned on as the class lost interest.
    • It could be argued that the rise of the socially conscious model reflects a very 2017 archetype: the “woke” young woman, who looks set to define femininity this decade in the same way that the lager-swilling ladette did in the 90s. It is also symptomatic of a broader cultural “awokening” that has...2017 May 15, Hannah Marriott, “Woke models: how activism became fashion's latest must-have”, in The Guardian, London, page 9
  6. (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.

Noun

stuffy (plural stuffies)

  1. (Canada, US, childish, colloquial, often) Synonym of stuffed toy.
    Synonyms:
    stuffed toy

stuffy meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

stuffy in Tamil

புழுக்கமான

stuffy in Bengali

গুমোট, শ্বাসরোধী

stuffy in Malayalam

വായുസഞ്ചാരമില്ലാത്ത, വിരസനായ, മൂക്കടപ്പുണ്ടായ

stuffy in Kannada

ಗಾಳಿಯಾಡದ, ಉಸಿರುಕಟ್ಟಿಸುವ, ಶುದ್ಧಗಾಳಿಯ ಕೊರತೆಯಿರುವ, ಹಳೆಯ ಭಾವನೆಗಳ, ನೀರಸವಾದ, ಸಿಡುಗುಟ್ಟುವ
More languagesFewer languages
stuffy in Gujarati
સ્ટફી
stuffy in Nepali
स्टफी

Examples of stuffy in a sentence

  • It's getting quite stuffy in this room: let's open the windows and air it.
  • Herbal tea has a nice aroma and is good for a stuffy head.
  • Is it me or is it really stuffy in here?

All 31 example sentences with stuffy

Synonyms of stuffy

Forms of stuffy

Adjective
comparativestuffier
superlativestuffiest
Noun
pluralstuffies
alternative formstuffie

Origin of stuffy

From stuff + -y.

Words formed from stuffy

Words that rhyme with stuffy

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about stuffy

What does stuffy mean?
Stuffy means poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
What is stuffy in Tamil?
Stuffy in Tamil is புழுக்கமான. See Stuffy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stuffy?
Stuffy can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce stuffy?
Stuffy is pronounced /ˈstʌfi/.

Words near stuffy in the dictionary

  1. stuffs
  2. stuffs one's face
  3. stuffs out
  4. stuffs the ballot box
  5. stuffs up
  6. stuffy
  7. stuft
  8. STUFTs
  9. Stugard
  10. stuggy
  11. Stuhl

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stuffy (page history and authors); stuffy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stuffy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stuffy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stuffy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stuffy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stuffy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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