Colourless vs Stodgy - What's the difference?
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Having little or no colour.
(of a liquid) Water white.
Lacking in interest or variety.
(of food) having a thick, semi-solid consistency; glutinous; heavy on the stomach.
dull, old-fashioned
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*:"What's the matter with you?" -- "Nothing. I'm sorry to be so damned emotional, but for six months I've been starved for beauty." -- "You used to be so matter of fact. It's very interesting to hear you say that." -- "Damn it all, I don't want to be interesting," laughed Philip. "Let's go and have a stodgy tea ."
Colourless is a related term of stodgy.
As adjectives the difference between colourless and stodgy
is that colourless is having little or no colour while stodgy is (of food) having a thick, semi-solid consistency; glutinous; heavy on the stomach.colourless
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(wikipedia colourless)Alternative forms
* colorless (American spelling)Adjective
(en adjective)See also
* (Colorless green ideas sleep furiously) British English formsstodgy
English
Adjective
(er)- I gave up trying to get that stodgy club to try anything new.
- The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.