Meaning

2 senses
  1. (not comparable)Docile, unthinking and conformist.

  2. (not comparable)Attractive but lacking any character.

Origin

From the fictional place name Stepford. After the fictional suburb in the 1972 novel The S

From the fictional place name Stepford. After the fictional suburb in the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, and in two films of the same name based on the novel.

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