staid

¹staid

adj \ˈstād\

Definition of STAID

: marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober, grave

— staid·ly adverb

— staid·ness noun

Examples of STAID

1. a staid and solemn businessman
2. <everyone was surprised by the racy joke from the usually staid professor>

Origin of STAID

from past participle of ³stay

First Known Use: 1557

Related to STAID

Synonyms: earnest, grave, humorless, no-nonsense, po-faced [British], sedate, severe, sober, sobersided, solemn, serious, uncomic, unsmiling, weighty

Antonyms: facetious, flip, flippant, humorous, jesting, jocular, joking, kittenish, ludic, playful

Related Words: harsh, stern, strict; businesslike, professional; dignified, distinguished, elevated, serious-minded; gloomy, grim

Near Antonyms: antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, hysterical (also hysteric), laughable, light, light-headed, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, uproarious; featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, lighthearted, puerile, scatterbrained; absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, fatuous, foolish, half-witted, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany

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Rhymes with STAID

Ade, aid, aide, blade, braid, cade, clade, fade, glade, grade, jade, lade, made, maid, paid, raid, rayed, shade, spade, stade, suede, trade, wade