Ancient and Stuffy

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Ancient adjective - Dating or surviving from the distant past.

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Stuffy and ancient are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stuffy" instead an adjective "Ancient".

Nearby Word: anciently

Stuffy adjective - Lacking fresh air.

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Ancient and stuffy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancient" instead an adjective "Stuffy".

Nearby Words: stuff, stuffed, stuffing, stuffiness, stuffily

In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the opening number, "Comedy Tonight," notes that the actress playing Gymnasia "plays Medea later this week." (Forum, of course, is set in Ancient Rome and based on a classical play, but, as the number points out, not of the stuffy or serious kind.)

Source: Classically Trained Extra
The heroes investigate a pyramid and after discovering the hoax, Genre Savvy Ascended Fanboy Max reports that it's a "Scooby-Doo" and explains what he means to his Stuffy British partner.Max: Since when do ancient Egyptian death gods have jaws that clank when you hit them?

Source: Western Animation / Max Steel

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