staid
staid / stād
adjective 1. sober; sedate; serious; conforming to proper, conventional standards Madame Reuter looked more like a joyous, free-living old Flemish fermiere, or even a maitresse d'auberge, than a staid, grave, rigid directrice de pensionnat. From “The Professor” by Charlotte Brontë, 1816 – 1855 2. permanent; stationary There is nothing settled, nothing staid in this universe. From “The Waves” by Virginia Woolf, 1882 – 1941