staid
adjective/steɪd/
/steɪd/
- not fun or interesting; boring and old-fashioned
- The museum is trying to get rid of its staid image.
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc2- He had grown staid and dull.
- The locals were a very staid lot.
- a rather staid and old-fashioned hotel
- the normally staid image of chess
- the staid world of business
- He was a staid sort of man who mostly wrote about local government matters.
- His pictures brought life and fun into the staid, pre-war world of fashion photography.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- look
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- the staid world of…
Word Originmid 16th cent.: archaic past participle of the verbstay.
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