Usually means: Serious, respectable, and unadventurous demeanor.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. staid: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. staid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. staid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. staid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. staid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Staid, staid: Wordnik
  7. staid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. staid: Wiktionary
  9. staid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. staid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. staid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. staid: Dictionary.com
  13. staid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. staid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Staid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. staid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. staid: Rhymezone
  18. Staid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. staid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. staid: Free Dictionary
  21. staid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. staid: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. staid: Legal dictionary

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(Note: See stay as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.
adjective:  (rare) Always fixed in the same location; stationary.
verb:  Obsolete spelling of stayed.

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