Staid

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  • adjective. Characterized by sedateness and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; serious and conventional.
  • adjective. Fixed; permanent.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Sober; grave; steady; sedate; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful: as, a staid elderly person.
  • noun. A mode of spelling the preterit and past participle of stay.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful.
  • imp. & p. p. of stay.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Serious, organized, and professional; sober
  • adjective. Always fixed in the same location; stationary
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. characterized by dignity and propriety
    • Word Usage
    "Her bright red shirt and quiet authority make her stand out from her hired managers and the men in staid blue button-downs that came from CiCi's corporate office to help with the launch."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    fanciful  volatile  wild  
    Equivalent
    decorous  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blade  Cade  Crusade  Dade  Jade  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    arid  barren  calm  collected  composed  
    variant
    stay  
    verb-stem
    stay  
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