Antonyms of adj stodgy

3 senses of stodgy

Sense 1
stodgy -- (heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full")

INDIRECT (VIA indigestible) -> digestible -- (capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal)

Sense 2
fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud (predicate), stodgy -- ((used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life")

INDIRECT (VIA unfashionable) -> fashionable, stylish -- (being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe")

Sense 3
stodgy, stuffy -- (excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party")

INDIRECT (VIA conventional) -> unconventional -- (not conforming to accepted rules or standards; "her unconventional dress and hair style")
INDIRECT (VIA conventional, conventional) -> unconventional -- (not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles")

Similarity of adj stodgy

3 senses of stodgy

Sense 1
stodgy -- (heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full")
       => indigestible (vs. digestible) -- (digested with difficulty)

Sense 2
fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud (predicate), stodgy -- ((used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life")
       => unfashionable (vs. fashionable), unstylish -- (not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind")

Sense 3
stodgy, stuffy -- (excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party")
       => conventional (vs. unconventional) (vs. unconventional) -- (following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address")

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