There are many synonyms for the adjective "staid". One can interchange the word "staid" with words such as "sedate", "serious", "grave", "steady", and "composed".
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Staid describes somebody who -- has a settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
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Staid describes somebody who -- has a settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
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1. "Something that is staid is dignified, respectable - possibly even boring, like a staid dinner party that is heavy on the important guests but light on the laughs."(Vocabulary.com)
2. "There is nothing settled, nothing staid in this universe"(Virginia Woolf) ^_^
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The spelling "staid" means sedate or stodgy.
The past tense of the verb to stay is "stayed."
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Over the last few years he has taken the staid world of opera by storm.
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Staid means sedate, respectable, unadventurous. The antonym would therefore be frivolous, adventurous, or sporting.
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Staid means old fashion in behaviour or appearance. This word can be used in many different sentences
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Sobrius is the Latin equivalent of 'staid'. It's an adjective in the masculine form. The feminine and neuter forms are 'sobria' and 'sobrium', respectively.
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Staid means respectful. quiet and dignified - often applied to "proper" people not given to great shows of emotion.
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of settled disposition
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Her outlook on life was considered whimsical by her staid and conservative friends.
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Your continued distasteful behavior risks your expulsion from our staid consortium.
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Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful., of Stay
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Homophone: "Summer" Homograph: "Bow" (as in bow tie or bow and arrow)
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The homophone pair stayed and staid fits the sentence, "She stayed away from the wild party because she's a staid person."
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stand, sound. stood. staid. stead, sated, sited
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Anything from flowery to staid - and many more outside that range probably.
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I needed a passport so I could travel to France.
His passport photograph looked staid and respectable.
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Mercedes Benz was a song by Janis Joplin. It was NOT used as a commercial by the staid and conservative ( since l886) German automaker!
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This staid company has been in business since 1908.
I'm just so lost since you've been gone.
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5-letter words
litai, staid, staig, stain, stair, taiga, tails, tains, taint
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The male Brewerâ??s Blackbird is a glossy, metallic combination of black, midnight blue, and green. The females are not metallic. They are staid brown.
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adits, agist, baits, ditas, gadis, gaits, staid, staig, tabid, tsadi
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That is the way it was thought people should pose for pictures. Nobody smiled. Perhaps at the time that was considered undignified.
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It didn't conquer Rome. Many upper class Romans were impressed with Greek culture and adopted aspects of it to supplement their own staid one.
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Daily Jumble8/7/11
Clue: What was evident at the Christmas party.
Answer: THE SEASON ‘SPIRIT’ (staid, tryst, bonnet, biceps)
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The past tense of the verb to stay is stayed(remained).
The sound-alike word is the adjective staid (somber, humorless).
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Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave., Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity., To look demurely.
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The opposite of emotional is unemotional. Other antonyms could be impassive, dispassionate, objective, stolid, or staid.
The opposite basis for an action would be rational or logical.
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