staid
adjectiveCharacterized by sedateness and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; serious and conventional.
adjectiveFixed; permanent.
nounA mode of spelling the preterit and past participle of stay.
Sober; grave; steady; sedate; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful: as, a staid elderly person.
imp. & p. p. of
Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful.
adjectiveAlways
characterized by dignity and propriety