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staid

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staid  (std)
adj.
1. Characterized by sedate dignity and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; sober. See Synonyms at serious.
2. Fixed; permanent: "There is nothing settled, nothing staid in this universe" (Virginia Woolf).

[From obsolete staid, past participle of stay.]

staidly adv.
staidness n.

staid [steɪd]
adj
1. of a settled, sedate, and steady character
2. Now rare permanent
[obsolete past participle of stay1]
staidly  adv
staidness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.staid - characterized by dignity and propriety
decorous - characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme"

staid
Translations
staid [steɪd] ADJ [person] → serio; [clothes] → sobrio, serio

staid [ˈsteɪd] adj (= dull) [person] → terne; [place] → banal(e); [image] → terne

staid
adj (+er)seriös, gesetzt; communityrespektabel; place, productseriös; colourgedeckt

staid [steɪd] adj (-er (comp) (-est (superl))) → compassato/a
staid [steɪd] adj (-er (comp) (-est (superl))) → compassato/a

staid
adj staid [steid]
(over-)serious or old-fashioned A person of staid appearance/habits. outydse رَزين، رَصين، وَقور улегнал usedlý sat; adstadig seriös σοβαρός, συντηρητικός vanameelne, alalhoidlik جدي و متين vanhoillinen posé, sérieux מְיוּשַב गंभीर ozbiljan, staložen higgadt agung settlegur; alvarlegur posato, serio 落ち着いた 침착한 rimtas, senamadiškas nosvērts; izturēts; vecmodīgs fesyen lama bezadigd satt, adstadig poważny, staroświecki sério afectat, pedant степенный vážny; staromódny, usadlý, uvážlivý resen staložen lugn, stadgad ที่เงียบขรึม ağırbaşlı 穩重的,老式的,[]保守的 статечний; старомодний سنجیدہ trầm tính, ù lì


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She staid but half an hour and neither in the Course of her Visit, confided to me any of her secret thoughts, nor requested me to confide in her, any of Mine.
A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
Jennings was kept away by the indisposition of her youngest daughter; and for this party, Marianne, wholly dispirited, careless of her appearance, and seeming equally indifferent whether she went or staid, prepared, without one look of hope or one expression of pleasure.
 
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