different between staid vs chagrined

English

Etymology

From an obsolete spelling of stayed, the past participle of stay, used as an adjective.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ste?d/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /sted/
• Rhymes: -e?d
• Homophone: stayed (except Scotland)

Adjective

staid (comparative staider, superlative staidest)

1. Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.

   Synonyms: composed, dignified, regular, steady; see also Thesaurus:serious, Thesaurus:temperate

   Antonyms: fanciful, unpredictable, volatile, wild
2. (rare) Always fixed in the same location; stationary.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

staid

1. Obsolete spelling of stayed

References

Anagrams

• Adsit, adits, tsadi

Irish

Etymology 1

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Noun

staid f (genitive singular staide, nominative plural staideanna)

1. stadium (venue where sporting events are held; Greek measure of length)
2. furlong

Declension

Synonyms

• staidiam

Etymology 2

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Noun

staid f (genitive singular staide, nominative plural staideanna)

1. state, condition

Declension

Derived terms

• soladstaid, staid sholadach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish stait, from Latin stati?. Compare Irish stáid — possibly from the same source, though MacBain suggests the Modern Irish term may be a direct loan from English state — and Welsh ystâd, which instead comes from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stat?/

Noun

staid f (genitive singular staide, plural staidean)

1. condition, state, circumstance

2. estate

Synonyms

• cor

Mutation

References

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “staid”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN

English

Verb

chagrined

1. simple past tense and past participle of chagrin

Adjective

chagrined (comparative more chagrined, superlative most chagrined)

1. Feeling chagrin (at something); vexed; fretful.[First attested in the early 18^th century, replacing the adjective chagrin.]
   • 1769, Arthur Murphy, Genuine Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Miss Ann Elliot, London: J. Fell & J. Roson, p. 92,^[1]

     […] she had nothing but paste ornaments about her; and therefore, observing her own diamonds on a celebrated courtezan, was so excessively, and indeed justly chagrined, that she left the play-house before the representation was concluded.

   • 1835, Edward Allan Poe, “Hans Phaall—A Tale” in Southern Literary Messenger, June, 1835, Volume I, No. 10, p. 569,^[2]

     […] I felt in both my breeches pockets, and missing therefrom a set of tablets and a tooth-pick case, I endeavored to account for their disappearance, and, not being able to do so, felt inexpressibly chagrined.

   • 1921, Harold Hunter Armstrong as Henry G. Aikman, Zell, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter Two, p. 115,^[3]

     “She’ll pay it,” Mr. O’Dell told Mr. Jenks with the chagrined expression of a restrained bulldog.

   • 2003, Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, New York: Scribner, 2004, Part Two, p. 129,^[4]

     He searched his pockets for money, feeling a little foolish, a little chagrined, having made and lost sums that could colonize a planet, but the woman was moving up the street on shoes with flapping soles and there were no bills or coins in any case to find inside his pants, or documents of any kind.