staid
1staid — [ steıd ] adjective serious and rather boring: rather staid medical journals He projects a staid, aloof image. ╾ staid|ly adverb ╾ staid|ness noun uncount …
2Staid — Staid, a. [From {Stay} to stop.] Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful. Sober and staid persons. Addison. [1913 Webster] O erlaid with black, staid Wisdom s hue. Milton. [1913 Webster] Syn:… …
3staid — staid·ly; staid·ness; un·staid; staid; …
4staid´ly — staid «stayd», adjective, verb. –adj. 1. having a settled, quiet character; sober; sedate: »We think of the Puritans as staid people. SYNONYM(S): grave, serious, steady, composed. 2. settled; unchanging; …
5Staid — (st[=a]d), imp. & p. p. of {Stay}. [1913 Webster] …
6staid — [steıd] adj [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: From the past participle of stay] serious, old fashioned, and boring ▪ a staid old bachelor …
7staid — index earnest, phlegmatic, solemn Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
8staid — (adj.) 1540s, fixed, permanent, adjectival use of stayed, pp. of STAY (Cf. stay) (v.). Meaning sober, sedate first recorded 1550s …
9staid — sedate, grave, *serious, somber, sober, earnest Analogous words: *decorous, decent, seemly: *cool, collected, composed: smug, priggish, self complacent, *complacent Antonyms: jaunty …
10staid — [adj] restrained, set calm, cold sober*, collected, composed, cool, decorous, demure, dignified, earnest, formal, grave, no nonsense*, quiet, sedate, self restrained, serious, settled, sober, solemn, somber, starchy, steady, stuffy, weighty;… …
