staid
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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).
[From obsolete staid, past participle of stay.]
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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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" |
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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
wild, lively, exuberant, adventurous, rowdy, giddy, capricious, flighty, demonstrative, indecorous, sportive
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Translations
رَزين، رَصين، وَقور
usedlý
sat
settlegur; alvarlegur
izturētsnosvērtsvecmodīgs
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[steɪd] adj (-er (comp) (-est (superl))) → compassato/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
staid
(steid) adjective (over-)serious or old-fashioned. A person of staid appearance/habits.
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