A stuffy room or building is unpleasant because it has no fresh air See examples of stuffy used in a sentence. Oppressive from lack of freshness Definition of stuffy adjective from the oxford advanced learner's dictionary (comparative stuffier, superlative stuffiest) (of a building, room, etc.) warm in an unpleasant way and without enough fresh air It gets very hot and stuffy in here in summer.
If it is stuffy in a place, it is unpleasantly warm and there is not enough fresh air It was hot and stuffy in the classroom. Stuffy (plural stuffies) (us, canada, colloquial, often childish) synonym of stuffed toy. • the hotel room was hot and stuffy, and i woke up with a terrible headache Close, stifling, suffocating, breathless, thick, airless, oppressive, heavy Breezy, airy, sweet, refreshing, unstuffy, brisk, bracing, reviving
