1. (a.) Stout; mettlesome; resolute.

2. (a.) Angry and obstinate; sulky.

3. (a.) Ill-ventilated; close.

Quakerish Victorian accordant airless anal arid arrogant authoritarian bad bad-smelling barren bigot bigoted blah blank bloated bloodless bombastic borne bourgeois breathless breezeless cantankerous censorious characterless close closed cold colorless compulsive concordant conformist constricted contrary conventional corresponding cramped creedbound cross-grained dead deaf deaf to reason demure difficult dismal draggy drearisome dreary dry dryasdust dull dusty earthbound effete elephantine empty etiolated fade fanatical fecal fetid flat flatulent fogyish formal formalistic foul froward frowsty frowsy frowy frowzy fuddy-duddy fulsome funky fusty gamy gassy genteel grandiloquent graveolent harmonious heavy hidebound high ho-hum hollow humdrum humid ill-smelling ill-ventilated illiberal important in accord in keeping in line in step inane inexcitable infecund infertile inflated insipid insular irascible jejune kosher leaden lifeless literal little little-minded low-spirited magisterial malodorous mean mean-minded mean-spirited mephitic miasmal miasmic mid-Victorian mildewed mildewy moldy mouldy muggy mundane musty narrow narrow-hearted narrow-minded narrow-souled narrow-spirited nearsighted nidorous noisome noxious odorous offensive old-fashioned old-fogy old-fogyish old-maidish olid oppressive ornery orthodox overmodest pale pallid parochial pedantic pedestrian perverse petty plastic plodding pointless poky pompous ponderous pontifical precisianistic priggish prim prissy proper prosaic prosing prosy provincial prudish puffy purblind puritanical putrid rancid rank ravaged with age reasty reasy reechy reeking reeky repulsive rigid rotten sanctimonious self-important senile shortsighted slow small small-minded smellful smelling smelly smug solemn spiritless square stagnant staid stale stenchy sterile sticky stiff stiff-necked stifling stilted stinking stodgy stolid straight strait-laced straitlaced strong suffocating sulfurous sulky sullen sultry superficial swollen tasteless tedious thick traditionalist tumid turgid uncatholic uncharitable unfanciful ungenerous unideal unimaginative uninspired uninventive unliberal unlively unoriginal unpoetic unromantic unromanticized unvented unventilated uptight vapid vile wayward windless wooden