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# stuffy

«stuffy» in Mova's school dictionary: **A stuffy room has warm, stale air with not enough fresh air** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (stuffy, stuffier, stuffiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A stuffy room has warm, stale air with not enough fresh air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stuffy/#m1)

2) A stuffy nose is blocked, so it is hard to breathe through it, often because of a cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stuffy/#m2)

3) A stuffy person is old-fashioned, formal and boring, and does not like fun or change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stuffy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In health and science lessons, a stuffy classroom makes people sleepy; opening a window lets in fresh air with oxygen and lets out stale air. When you have a cold you get a stuffy nose. In stories «a stuffy old museum» or «a stuffy aunt» means formal and dull. Phrases: «stuffy room», «stuffy nose», «feel stuffy».

### examples

- Open the window — it's stuffy in here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stuffy/#x1)
- I have a cold and a stuffy nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stuffy/#x2)
- The bus was hot and stuffy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stuffy/#x3)
- The stuffy air made everyone yawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stuffy/#x4)
- My grandad says the club is too stuffy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stuffy/#x5)
- Steam can help a stuffy nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stuffy/#x6)
- The attic was dark and stuffy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stuffy/#x7)

### note

Comparative: stuffier, stuffiest. From «stuff» + -y. Not the same as «stuffed» (full): a stuffed toy is not stuffy.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stuffy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stuffy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.