how to pronounce staid

/stɛɪd/

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staid is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of staid in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… this infuriated the staid and boring …”

meanings of staid

adjective:

Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.
Always fixed in the same location; stationary.

verb:

Obsolete spelling of stayed.

staid frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word staid occurs in english on average 0.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics staid can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that staid can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;