heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring

a stodgy Victorian novel.

of a thick, semisolid consistency; heavy, as food.

stocky; thick-set.

old-fashioned; unduly formal and traditional

a stodgy old gentleman.

dull; graceless; inelegant

a stodgy business suit.

noun

asepticism , blandness , colorlessness , drabness , dreariness , dryness , flatness , flavorlessness , insipidity , insipidness , jejuneness , lifelessness , sterileness , sterility , vapidity , vapidness , weariness