stodgy

Adjective

• 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
    

• (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
  • moss-grown ideas about family life
    

• heavy and starchy and hard to digest
  • stodgy food
    
  • a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  stuffy , fogyish , moss-grown , mossy , stick-in-the-mud(p)