staid
staid
Definition
staid (stād)
intransitive verb, transitive verb
Archaic stay
adjective
- Rare resisting change; fixed
- sober; sedate; settled and steady
staid′ly adverb
staid′·ness noun
staid
Synonyms
staid
Usage Examples
Object
- night: She staid there all night; nobody turned in.
Modifies a noun
- image: HONDA has gone all out to change its rather staid image with an excitingly different look for its latest Civic.
- world: Over the last few years he has taken the staid world of opera by storm.
- man: The British economy is only healthy in the sense that the most staid middle-aged man is healthy.
- reputation: Its cities are shaking off their staid reputations and reveling in their cosmopolitan chic.
- capital: Pretoria is the staid, conservative capital, with wide streets lined with jacaranda trees that bloom purple in spring.
- family: Staid middle-aged family a fleetwood would tailored to an.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: By the corpse is a hat labeled ' Madame Rita ' , real name the rather staid Mrs Grant.
- normally: One wonders just how much normally staid writer George St George actually contributed.
- there: She staid there all night; nobody turned in.
- very: Some of the latter are very staid, others flippant enough; most are single women.
- little: The WAGs seemed a welcome adornment to Baden-Baden, which had become a little staid since its 19th century heyday.
- somewhat: That both choose to remain as Ogres rather than retain their human forms avoided a happy but somewhat staid and expected ending.
Used with adjective complement
- look: It certainly makes the next generation of composers look positively staid.
- haue: I would haue staid till I had made you merry, If worthier friends had not preuented me Ant.
- become: A series of unexpected and often ludicrous juxtapositions ensure that this collection of interconnected stories never become staid.
Browse dictionary entries near staid
- stagy
- stagnation
- stagnate
- stagnant
- Stagirite
- staging area
- staging
- staghound
- staghorn fern
- staghorn coral
- stain
- stained glass
- stainless
- stainless steel
- stair
- staircase
- stairs
- stairway
- stairwell
- staithe
