Staid

imp. & p.	1.	imp. & p. p. of Stay.
a.	1.	Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful. O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. - Milton.

Adj.

1.

staid - characterized by dignity and propriety Synonyms: sedate

arid, barren, calm, collected, composed, cool, decorous, demure, dignified, dry, dull, 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, serious, serious-minded, smug, sober-minded, sobersided, somber, starchy, stiff, stolid, stone-faced, straight-faced, stuffy, temperate, thoughtful, unfanciful, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unromantic, unromanticized, unsmiling, weighty

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