stodgy

stodgy
    adj 1: heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a
           stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
    2: (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-
       grown ideas about family life" [syn: {fogyish}, {moss-grown},
       {mossy}, {stick-in-the-mud(p)}, {stodgy}]
    3: excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull;
       "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a
       sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party" [syn: {stodgy},
       {stuffy}]
    

Stodgy \Stodg"y\, a.
   Wet. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.
   [1913 Webster] Stoechiology
    

141 Moby Thesaurus words for "stodgy":
      Spartan, adhesive, aloof, amylaceous, apathetic, arid, banausic,
      barren, blah, bland, blank, bloodless, boring, characterless,
      clabbered, clammy, clotted, coagulated, cold, colorless, curdled,
      dead, deadly, detached, dim, dismal, doughy, dowdy, draggy,
      drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete,
      elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, flat, fogyish, frumpish,
      frumpy, fuddy-duddy, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey,
      glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike,
      gumlike, gummous, gummy, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, inane,
      indifferent, indomitable, inexcitable, insipid, inspissated,
      jejune, jelled, jellied, jellylike, leaden, lifeless,
      long-suffering, low-spirited, matter-of-fact, monotone, monotonous,
      mucilaginous, old-fogy, old-fogyish, out-of-date, outmoded, pale,
      pallid, pasty, patient, pedantic, pedestrian, phlegmatic, plodding,
      pointless, poky, ponderous, ravaged with age, resigned, ropy,
      self-controlled, senile, slabby, slimy, slithery, slow, solemn,
      spiritless, starchy, sterile, sticky, stiff, stoic, stolid,
      stringy, stuffy, superficial, syrupy, tacky, tasteless, tedious,
      tenacious, thick, thickened, tiresome, tough, tremelloid,
      tremellose, turgid, unassailable, unconcerned, unexciting,
      unimaginative, uninteresting, unlively, vapid, viscid, viscose,
      viscous, weighty, wooden