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staider

staider is the comparative form of staid.

Meaning of staid

Adjective

staid (comparative staider, superlative staidest)

  1. Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.
    • Put thy ſelfe / Into a hauiour of leſſe feare, ere wildneſſe / Vanquiſh my ſtayder Senſes.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  2. (rare) Always fixed in the same location; stationary.
    • 'Tis not age or height alone / Can secure the staidest throne / From the reach of Change or Death,— […]1814, Leigh Hunt, The Descent of Liberty, a Mask, London: […] Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, […], published 1815, →OCLC, scene III, page 42

Questions about staider

What is staider the comparative form of?
Staider is the comparative form of staid.

Words near staider in the dictionary

  1. Stai
  2. staia
  3. Staib
  4. Staibs
  5. staid
  6. staider
  7. staidest
  8. staidly
  9. staidness
  10. staidnesses
  11. staies

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