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staidness

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staid

  [steyd] ,
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–adjective
1. of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
2. fixed, settled, or permanent.
–verb
3. Archaic. a pt. and pp. of stay 1 .
Origin:
1535–45 for adj. use

Related forms:
staidly, adverb
staidness, noun

Synonyms:
1. proper, serious, decorous, solemn. Staid, sedate, settled indicate a sober and composed type of conduct. Staid indicates an ingrained seriousness and propriety that shows itself in complete decorum; a colorless kind of correctness is indicated: a staid and uninteresting family. Sedate applies to one who is noticeably quiet, composed, and sober in conduct: a sedate and dignified young man. One who is settled has become fixed, esp. in a sober or determined way, in manner, judgments, or mode of life: He is young to be so settled in his ways.

Antonyms:
1. wild, frivolous.
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staid   (stād)   
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 stay1.]
staid'ly adv., staid'ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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