Staid

English

Adjective

Staid (comparative staider, superlative staidest)

1. Serious, organized, and professional; sober
2. Always fixed in the same location; stationary

Synonyms

• (serious): composed, regular, sedate, steady

Antonyms

• (serious): fanciful, volatile, wild

Thesaurus

arid, barren, calm, collected, composed, cool, decorous, demure, dignified, dry, dull, earnest, earthbound, formal, frowning, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, infecund, infertile, literal, long-faced, moderate, mundane, no-nonsense, priggish, prim, prosaic, prosing, prosy, quiet, restrained, rigid, sedate, serious, serious-minded, smug, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, starchy, stiff, stolid, stone-faced, straight-faced, stuffy, temperate, thoughtful, unfanciful, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unromantic, unromanticized, unsmiling, weighty

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪd
• Homophone: stayed

Translations

Serious, organized, and professional; sober

Russian: степенный (ru)

Always fixed in the same location; stationary

Russian: неподвижный (ru), стационарный (ru)

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Dutch: formeel (nl) Finnish: vakava, tosikkomainen French: terne (fr)

German: gesetzt (de), seriös (de) Spanish: estable (es), fijo (es), estático (es), sedentario (es)

Anagrams

• adits, tsadi