Definition: excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
Usage: why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?; a stodgy dinner party
Similar words: conventional
Definition: following accepted customs and proprieties
Usage: conventional wisdom; she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior; conventional forms of address
Synonyms: fogyish, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy, moss-grown, mossy
Definition: (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
Usage: moss-grown ideas about family life
Similar words: unstylish, unfashionable
Definition: not in accord with or not following current fashion
Usage: unfashionable clothes; melodrama of a now unfashionable kind
Synonyms: stodgy
Definition: heavy and starchy and hard to digest
Usage: stodgy food; a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full
Similar words: indigestible
Definition: digested with difficulty