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Stagira
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stagnant anoxia
stagnant hypoxia
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Stahlian
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-- Staid --
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Staid

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Pronunciation: stād
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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