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ADJECTIVE:
  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).
ETYMOLOGY:
From obsolete staid, past participle of stay1

OTHER FORMS:
staidly(Adverb), staidness(Noun)


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