Stuffy vs Tedious - What's the difference?
stuffy | tedious |
Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
Angry and obstinate; sulky.
Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
(US, Canada, colloquial, often, childish) A stuffed animal or other plush toy.
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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As adjectives the difference between stuffy and tedious
is that stuffy is poorly ventilated; partially plugged while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.As a noun stuffy
is (us|canada|colloquial|often|childish) a stuffed animal or other plush toy.stuffy
English
Adjective
(er)- I can't smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose.
- Let's go outside – it's getting stuffy in here.
- The stuffy professor droned on as the class lost interest.
Noun
(stuffies)Derived terms
* stuffily * stuffinesstedious
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=A work is objectively tedious' when it contains the defect in question; that is to say, when its author has no perfectly clear thought or knowledge to communicate. For if a man has any clear thought or knowledge in him, his aim will be to communicate it, and he will direct his energies to this end; so that the ideas he furnishes are everywhere clearly expressed. The result is that he is neither diffuse, nor unmeaning, nor confused, and consequently not ' tedious .}}
citation, passage=The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The best work may, therefore, be tedious' subjectively, ' tedious .}}