Staid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Characterized by sedate dignity and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; sober. See Synonyms at serious.
  • adj. Fixed; permanent: "There is nothing settled, nothing staid in this universe” ( Virginia Woolf).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Serious, organized, and professional; sober
  • adj. Always fixed in the same location; stationary
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. & p. p. of stay.
  • adj. Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A mode of spelling the preterit and past participle of stay.
  • Sober; grave; steady; sedate; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful: as, a staid elderly person.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. characterized by dignity and propriety
    • Equivalent
    decorous   
    Antonym
    volatile    wild    fanciful   
    Variant
    stay   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    composed    steadfast    regular    sober    sedate    grave    steady   
    Verb Stem
    stay   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blade    Cade    Crusade    Dade    Jade    Kincaid    Slade    Wade    ade    afraid   
     
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