staid

staid

sober and sedate; characterized by dignity and propriety: a staid professor

Not to be confused with:

stayed – continuing or remaining in a place; a judicial order forbidding an action until the order is lifted: stayed the execution

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staid

 (stād)

adj.

1. Characterized by sedateness and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; serious and conventional.

2. Fixed; permanent: "There is nothing settled, nothing staid in this universe" (Virginia Woolf).

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[From obsolete staid, past participle of stay.]

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staid′ly adv.

staid′ness n.

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staid

(steɪd)

adj

1. of a settled, sedate, and steady character

2. rare permanent

[C16: obsolete past participle of stay¹]

ˈstaidly adv

ˈstaidness n

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staid

(steɪd)

adj.

1. of decorous, sedate, or solemn character.

2. fixed, settled, or permanent.

v.

3. Archaic. a pt. and pp. of stay ¹.

staid′ly, adv.

staid′ness, n.

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Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

staid - characterized by dignity and propriety sedate decorous - characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme"

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staid

adjective sedate, serious, sober, quiet, calm, grave, steady, composed, solemn, demure, decorous, self-restrained, set in your ways a staid country doctor
wild, lively, exuberant, adventurous, rowdy, giddy, capricious, flighty, demonstrative, indecorous, sportive

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staid

adjective

Full of or marked by dignity and seriousness:

earnest, grave, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, somber.

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Translations

رَزين، رَصين، وَقور

usedlý

sat

seriös

sérieux

settlegur; alvarlegur

serio

izturētsnosvērtsvecmodīgs

adstadigsatt

sério

ağırbaşlı

保守的老式的

staid

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

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staid

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

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staid

adj (+er) → seriös, gesetzt; community → respektabel; place, product → seriös; colour → gedeckt

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staid

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

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staid

(steid) adjective

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

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