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Austere vs Staid - What's the difference?

austere | staid |

As an adjective austere

is austere.

As a noun staid is

trail, track or staid can be stately woman.

austere

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Grim or severe in manner or appearance
    • The headmistress was an austere old woman.
  • Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy
    • The interior of the church was as austere as the parishioners were dour.

    Synonyms

    * (grim or severe) stern, strict, forbidding * (lacking trivial decoration) simple, plain, unadorned, unembellished

    Antonyms

    * (not lacking trivial decoration) overwrought, flamboyant, extravagant, gaudy, flashy

    Derived terms

    * austerity * austerely

    staid

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Serious, organized, and professional; sober
  • * 1915 , ":
  • *:He wondered what had become of the boys who were his companions: they were nearly thirty now; some would be dead, but others were married and had children; they were soldiers and parsons, doctors, lawyers; they were staid men who were beginning to put youth behind them.
  • Always fixed in the same location; stationary

    • Synonyms

    * (serious) composed, regular, sedate, steady

    Antonyms

    * (serious) fanciful, volatile, wild

    Anagrams

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