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单词 stuffy
释义
stuffy
adjective
disapproving
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/ˈstʌf.i/us
/ˈstʌf.i/

stuffyadjective(WITHOUT AIR)

A stuffyroomorbuildingisunpleasantbecause it has nofreshair:
（房间或建筑物）闷的，通风不畅的
a stuffyoffice空气污浊的办公室
It's reallyhotand stuffy in here - let'sopenthewindow.这里又热又闷——我们把窗户打开吧。
Thebedroomgets a little stuffy in thesummer.这个房间在夏天有点闷。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Hot & heat
  • bake
  • baking
  • beat down
  • boiling
  • broiling
  • fuggy
  • glow
  • heat haze
  • heated
  • heatwave
  • oppressive
  • piping hot
  • red-hot
  • scalding
  • scorching
  • sizzle
  • swelter
  • thermal
  • ultra-hot
  • white heat
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stuffyadjective(FORMAL)

old-fashioned,formal, andboring:
古板的，保守的，一本正经的
SirWilliam had theabilitytoconductproceedingsin adignifiedmannerwithouteverbecomingstuffy.威廉爵士能够以庄重但毫不刻板的方式主持会议。
She istryingtopromotea less stuffyimageoflibrarians.他在努力提升图书管理员的形象，想使之显得不那么古板。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Tedious and uninspiring
  • anonymous
  • banal
  • basic
  • be (as) dull as ditchwateridiom
  • bland
  • lifelessness
  • marginal
  • marmoreal
  • meh
  • menial
  • slow
  • soul-destroying
  • soulless
  • spinach
  • staid
  • stale
  • tame
  • turgid
  • well worn
  • worthy
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US
Ifyournoseis stuffy or you have a stuffynose,yournoseisblockedwithmucus, usually because you have acold.
（鼻子）不通气的，堵塞的

Related words

stuffily
stuffiness
(Definition ofstuffyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

stuffy| American Dictionary

stuffy
adjective
us
/ˈstʌf·i/

stuffyadjective(FORMAL)

formal,boring, and notmodern:
a stuffy,arrogantman

stuffyadjective(LACKING AIR)

lackingfreshair:
Theofficegets so stuffy in theafternoon.
(Definition ofstuffyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In my view we in this country are toostuffyabout religion; we are not innovative enough.
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Tradition is misunderstood everywhere and, therefore, misrepresented as somethingstuffy, sterile and primitive, a useless relic from a bygone era.
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He suggested that this country, since the war, had suffered from the continuation of too manystuffyattitudes.
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We are not as "stuffy" as all that.
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They were a breath of fresh air and brought democratic reality into that somewhatstuffyinstitution.
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He simply dominated the nation's political landscape, and he personified the new era, notstuffyor hidebound but classless, forward-looking, modern.
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Poultry covered the floor; the shed was dark,stuffyand overcrowded.
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The air in the tubes isstuffy—ask any of those engaged there.
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Is this not rather a silly andstuffyattitude to take?
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No one can accuse it of beingstuffy.
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You find them in astuffyoffice with 40,000, 50,000, or 100,000 words before them.
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If management arestuffy, rule-book based, old-fashioned, inflexible and uncommunicative, it is little surprise that the work force mirror those attitudes?
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I must say that my noble friend is being terriblystuffyagain.
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Such would be less likely to induce drunkenness than the presentstuffybars where men have to stand, and where all they can do is to drink.
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To use thestuffylanguage of 100 years ago, he sought to adopt as his guiding principle that superior persons should not impose their will on inferior persons.
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