Synonyms of stodgy

stodgy

adjective

ˈstä-jē 

as in boring

causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest

the sitcom was offbeat and interesting in its first season, but has since become predictable and stodgy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• boring
• slow
• old
• tiring
• stupid
• dull
• weary
• dusty
• wearying
• heavy
• dry
• annoying
• drab
• stuffy
• monotonous
• uninteresting
• tedious
• humdrum
• tame
• irritating
• tiresome
• ponderous
• dreary
• pedestrian
• stale
• leaden
• colorless
• wearisome
• arid
• monochromatic
• ho-hum
• jejune
• numbing
• pallid
• flat
• sterile
• mind-numbing
• unimaginative
• drudging
• unexciting
• soggy
• grey
• exhausting
• blah
• jading
• spiritless
• prosaic
• prosy
• dullish
• barren
• gray
• uninspiring
• blank
• unspectacular
• irksome
• uneventful
• unrewarding
• undramatic
• pedantic
• draining
• earthbound
• aseptic
• bothersome
• inanimate
• ordinary
• cumbersome
• unsensational
• fatiguing
• vapid
• commonplace
• unexceptional
• discouraging
• common
• tepid
• pleasureless
• debilitating
• plodding
• dispiriting
• suspenseless
• poky
• wearing
• unsurprising
• pokey
• unnewsworthy
• lumbering
• enervating
• disheartening
• demoralizing
• longsome
• palling
• enfeebling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• interesting
• intriguing
• involving
• engaging
• wonderful
• surprising
• exciting
• marvellous
• spectacular
• amazing
• marvelous
• engrossing
• absorbing
• riveting
• fabulous
• wondrous
• awesome
• sensational
• inspiring
• amusing
• gripping
• exhilarating
• astonishing
• entertaining
• astounding
• thrilling
• stimulating
• attractive
• charming
• breathtaking
• energizing
• stirring
• rousing
• moving
• electrifying
• alluring
• fascinating
• poignant
• beguiling
• invigorating
• enlivening
• animating
• enchanting
• attracting
• enthralling
• rip-roaring
• touching
• bewitching
• provocative
• entrancing
• eye-opening
• galvanizing
• diverting
• hair-raising
• suspenseful
• tantalizing
• captivating
• mesmerizing
• arresting
• spellbinding

Examples of stodgy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

By the time the country began to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain in 1989, Czech food had become stodgy and unimaginative. —David Farley, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2024

Virtually alone among scientific disciplines, geology suffers from a reputation as irredeemably stodgy, with all the tedious field work of paleontology and none of the velociraptors. —Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024

Woman One and Woman Two, as they’re identified, slip between narrating and playing a host of characters in Cephus’s life, from stodgy church lady to lumbering bus driver (Ayer is particularly funny when piloting a Greyhound). —Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 June 2024

Pious voters have long shunned the centrist CHP, repelled by its rigidly secularist ideology and stodgy, elitist image. —Ayla Jean Yackley, Foreign Affairs, 12 Apr. 2019