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staidadjective not joking or playful in mood or mannereveryone was surprised by the racy joke from the usually staid professor earnest, grave, humorless, no-nonsense, po-faced(British), sedate, serious, severe, sober, sobersided, solemn, uncomic, unsmiling, weighty harsh, stern, strictbusinesslike, professionaldignified, distinguished, elevated, serious-mindedgloomy, grim facetious, flip, flippant, humorous, jesting, jocular, joking, kittenish, ludic, playful antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, hysterical(also hysteric), laughable, light, light-headed, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, uproariousfeatherbrained, flighty, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, lighthearted, puerile, scatterbrainedabsurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, fatuous, foolish, half-witted, insane, jerky, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, unwise, wacky(also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany having or showing a formal and serious or reserved mannerstaid colors that would be good for business attire august, dignified, distingué, distinguished, imposing, portly, solemn, stately decorous, proper, seemlygrave, grim, po-faced(British), sober, somber(or sombre)aristocratic, elegant, elevated, handsome, lordly, magisterial, majestic, noble flighty, frivolous, giddy, goofy, silly, undignified coarse, crass, crude, improper, indecent, uncouth, unseemly, vulgar serious, grave, solemn, sedate, staid, sober, earnest mean not light or frivolous.serious implies a concern for what really matters.a serious play about social injustice grave implies both seriousness and dignity in expression or attitude.read the proclamation in a grave voice solemn suggests an impressive gravity utterly free from levity.a sad and solemn occasion sedate implies a composed and decorous seriousness.remained sedate amid the commotion staid suggests a settled, accustomed sedateness and prim self-restraint.a quiet and staid community sober stresses seriousness of purpose and absence of levity or frivolity.a sober look at the state of our schools earnest suggests sincerity or often zealousness of purpose.an earnest reformer in 1557 |