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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Stuffy \Stuff"y\, a.
     1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. [U. S.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Ill-ventilated; close.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Stuffy \Stuff"y\, a.
     1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
  
     2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. [U. S.]
  
     3. Ill-ventilated; close.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  stuffy
       adj 1: lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully
              close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was
              blue with smoke" [syn: airless, close, unaired]
       2: 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]
       [also: stuffiest, stuffier]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  stuffy
     Αγγλικά a.
     πνιγηρός, αποπνικτικός

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  stuffy
     a.
     1 poorly ventilated#Adjective; partially plug#Verb.
     2 stout#Adjective; mettlesome; resolute.
     3 (lb en US) angry and obstinate; sulky.
     4 boring#Adjective, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very
  conventional.
     5 (lb en Scotland) stout; sturdy.
     alt.
     (l en stuffie)
     n.
     (lb en US Canada colloquial often childish) (synonym of en stuffed
  toy)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  stuffy
     a.
     1 poorly ventilated#Adjective; partially plug#Verb.
     2 stout#Adjective; mettlesome; resolute.
     3 (lb en US) angry and obstinate; sulky.
     4 boring#Adjective, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very
  conventional.
     5 (lb en Scotland) stout; sturdy.
     alt.
     (l en stuffie)
     n.
     (lb en US Canada colloquial often childish) (synonym of en stuffed
  toy)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  stuffy
     a.
     1 poorly ventilated#Adjective; partially plug#Verb.
     2 stout#Adjective; mettlesome; resolute.
     3 (lb en US) angry and obstinate; sulky.
     4 boring#Adjective, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very
  conventional.
     5 (lb en Scotland) stout; sturdy.
     alt.
     (l en stuffie)
     n.
     (lb en US Canada colloquial often childish) (synonym of en stuffed
  toy)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  stuffy
     a.
     1 poorly ventilated#Adjective; partially plug#Verb.
     2 stout#Adjective; mettlesome; resolute.
     3 (lb en US) angry and obstinate; sulky.
     4 boring#Adjective, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very
  conventional.
     5 (lb en Scotland) stout; sturdy.
     alt.
     (l en stuffie)
     n.
     (lb en US Canada colloquial often childish) (synonym of en stuffed
  toy)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  stuffy
     Englanti a.
     1 (ihmisestä) kalkkeutunut, vanhanaikainen
     2 tukkoinen
     3 tunkkainen, ummehtunut
     4 luja, päättäväinen

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  stuffy
     Engelska a.
     1 kvav; det att sakna syre i luften.
     2 ''(om en person)'' det att sakna humör eller att vara för seriös

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-afr ]

  stuffy /stˈʌfi/
  bedompig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Stuffy /stˈʌfi/
  فاسد

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  stuffy //ˈstʌfi// 
  заду'шен, непроветрен
  poorly ventilated

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  stuffy /stˈʌfi/ 
  ucpaný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  stuffy /stˈʌfi/ 
  dusný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  stuffy /stˈʌfi/ 
  vydýchaný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  stuffy /stˈʌfi/ 
  usedlý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  stuffy /stˈʌfi/
  bieder, hausbacken  [pej.]
     Synonyms: staid, white-bread
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  stuffy /stˈʌfi/
  stickig, miefig, muffig 
   see: stuffier, stuffiest
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  stuffy /stˈʌfi/
  
  αποπνικτικός

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  stuffy //ˈstʌfi// 
  1. murjottava
  angry and obstinate; sulky
  2. tunkkainen
  poorly ventilated
  3. päättäväinen
  stout; mettlesome; resolute

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  stuffy /stˈʌfi/ 
  1. दम घोंटनेवाला
        " Open the window, its very stuffy here."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  stuffy /stˈʌfi/
  sparan, zagušljiv

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  stuffy /stˈʌfi/
  1. begyöpösödött
  2. dohos
  3. áporodott
  4. fülledt
  5. mérges
  6. zabos

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  stuffy /stʌfai/
  bedompt

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  stuffy /stʌfɪ/ 
    duszny

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  stuffy /stˈʌfi/
  1. havasız, havası bozuk, kapalı
  2. tıkalı (burun)
  3. (k.dili) kibirli
  4. soğuk, ağır.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈstəfi/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  255 Moby Thesaurus words for "stuffy":
     Quakerish, Victorian, accordant, airless, anal, arid, arrogant,
     authoritarian, bad, bad-smelling, barren, bigot, bigoted, blah,
     blank, bloated, bloodless, bombastic, borne, bourgeois, breathless,
     breezeless, cantankerous, censorious, characterless, close, closed,
     cold, colorless, compulsive, concordant, conformist, constricted,
     contrary, conventional, corresponding, cramped, creedbound,
     cross-grained, dead, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, difficult,
     dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty,
     earthbound, effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, fade, fanatical,
     fecal, fetid, flat, flatulent, fogyish, formal, formalistic, foul,
     froward, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fuddy-duddy, fulsome,
     funky, fusty, gamy, gassy, genteel, grandiloquent, graveolent,
     harmonious, heavy, hidebound, high, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, humid,
     ill-smelling, ill-ventilated, illiberal, important, in accord,
     in keeping, in line, in step, inane, inexcitable, infecund,
     infertile, inflated, insipid, insular, irascible, jejune, kosher,
     leaden, lifeless, literal, little, little-minded, low-spirited,
     magisterial, malodorous, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited,
     mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mid-Victorian, mildewed, mildewy,
     moldy, mouldy, muggy, mundane, musty, narrow, narrow-hearted,
     narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted,
     nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, old-fashioned,
     old-fogy, old-fogyish, old-maidish, olid, oppressive, ornery,
     orthodox, overmodest, pale, pallid, parochial, pedantic,
     pedestrian, perverse, petty, plastic, plodding, pointless, poky,
     pompous, ponderous, pontifical, precisianistic, priggish, prim,
     prissy, proper, prosaic, prosing, prosy, provincial, prudish,
     puffy, purblind, puritanical, putrid, rancid, rank,
     ravaged with age, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive,
     rigid, rotten, sanctimonious, self-important, senile, shortsighted,
     slow, small, small-minded, smellful, smelling, smelly, smug,
     solemn, spiritless, square, stagnant, staid, stale, stenchy,
     sterile, sticky, stiff, stiff-necked, stifling, stilted, stinking,
     stodgy, stolid, straight, strait-laced, straitlaced, strong,
     suffocating, sulfurous, sulky, sullen, sultry, superficial,
     swollen, tasteless, tedious, thick, traditionalist, tumid, turgid,
     uncatholic, uncharitable, unfanciful, ungenerous, unideal,
     unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unliberal, unlively,
     unoriginal, unpoetic, unromantic, unromanticized, unvented,
     unventilated, uptight, vapid, vile, wayward, windless, wooden,
     wrongheaded
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a.不通气的; 闷热的

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 闷热的,窒息的,乏味的,固步自封的,自以为是的

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