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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. characterized by dignity and propriety;
[syn: sedate, staid]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Staid \Staid\ (st[=a]d), imp. & p. p. of Stay. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Staid \Staid\, a. [From Stay to stop.] Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful. "Sober and staid persons." --Addison. [1913 Webster] O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Syn: Sober; grave; steady; steadfast; composed; regular; sedate. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stay \Stay\ (st[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stayed (st[=a]d) or Staid (st[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Staying.] [OF. estayer, F. ['e]tayer to prop, fr. OF. estai, F. ['e]tai, a prop, probably fr. OD. stade, staeye, a prop, akin to E. stead; or cf. stay a rope to support a mast. Cf. Staid, a., Stay, v. i.] 1. To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support. [1913 Webster] Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. --Ex. xvii. 12. [1913 Webster] Sallows and reeds . . . for vineyards useful found To stay thy vines. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. [1913 Webster] He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 3. To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully. [1913 Webster] She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold. [1913 Webster] Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With their rude hands and grisly grapplement. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] 5. To hinder; to delay; to detain; to keep back. [1913 Webster] Your ships are stayed at Venice. --Shak. [1913 Webster] This business staid me in London almost a week. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster] I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 6. To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. "I stay dinner there." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. To cause to cease; to put an end to. [1913 Webster] Stay your strife. --Shak. [1913 Webster] For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages stay. --Emerson. [1913 Webster] 8. (Engin.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler. [1913 Webster] 9. (Naut.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind. [1913 Webster] To stay a mast (Naut.), to incline it forward or aft, or to one side, by the stays and backstays. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

staid adj 1: characterized by dignity and propriety [syn: sedate, staid]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "staid": 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