close; poorly ventilated

a stuffy room.

oppressive from lack of freshness

stuffy air; a stuffy odor.

lacking in interest, as writing or discourse.

affected with a sensation of obstruction in the respiratory passages

a stuffy nose.

dull or tedious; boring.

self-important; pompous.

rigid or strait-laced in attitudes, esp. in matters of personal behavior.

old-fashioned; conservative.

ill-tempered; sulky.

adjective

airy , breezy , open , ventilated , current , informal , modern , new

adjective

airless , breathless , confined , fetid , heavy , humid , muggy , stagnant , stale , stifling , suffocating , sultry , thick , unventilated , arrogant , bloated , conventional , dreary , dull , fusty , genteel , humorless , important , magisterial , musty , narrow-minded , pompous , priggish , prim and proper , prissy , prudish , puffy , puritanical , self-important , staid , stilted , stodgy , straitlaced * , uninteresting , victorian * , close , drear , dry , humdrum , irksome , monotonous , tedious , tiresome , weariful , wearisome , weary , bluenosed , old-maidish , precise , prim , proper , strait-laced , victorian , conservative , crammed , oppressive , resolute , stout , straitlaced , sulky