Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Staidly

Definition: Staidly

Staidly

Adverb

1. In a grave and sober manner; "he walked soberly toward the altar".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "staidly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)


Synonyms: Staidly

Synonyms: gravely (adv), soberly (adv). (additional references)

Top     

Crosswords: Staidly

English words defined with "staidly": Stayedly. (references)

Top     

Non-Fiction Usage: Staidly

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Consumer spending in Argentina has been growing staidly. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Staidly

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

staidly

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: Staidly

Language Translations for "staidly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

seriöse (seriously). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aidlystay

   

Russian 

  

степенно (sedately). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Misspellings: Staidly

Misspellings

"Staidly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saidy, stabily, staidley, Standli, Standly, stedly, stoidly, Studeley. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Rhyming with "Staidly"

Words rhyming with "staidly" (pronounced 'Staid"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Aversely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Basely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blackly, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly. (additional references)

Top     

Anagrams: Staidly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-s-t-y"

-1 letter: daylit, distal.

-2 letters: adits, alist, daily, daisy, dials, ditas, ditsy, idyls, laity, litas, sadly, salty, sayid, silty, slaty, staid, styli, tails, tidal, tsadi.

-3 letters: adit, aids, ails, aits, alit, alts, dais, dals, days, dial, dita, dits, idly, idyl, lads, lady, laid, last, lati, lats, lays, lids, list, lits, sadi, said, sail, salt, sati.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: distally, sodality, steadily.

 

+2 letters: dactylics, daylights, diacetyls, dialysate, distantly, tiltyards.

 

+3 letters: dialysates, dialyzates, disability, disloyalty, disputably, dysplastic, solidarity, stylopodia, thylakoids, unsteadily.

 

+4 letters: crystalized, crystalloid, deistically, diddlysquat, disparately, dissonantly, drastically, postholiday, staphylinid, sustainedly, syndicalist.

 

+5 letters: advisability, artiodactyls, astoundingly, crystallised, crystallized, crystalloids, daylightings, desirability, desolatingly, despotically, disastrously, discordantly, discrepantly, disloyalties, disreputably, dissipatedly, distractedly, distraughtly, domestically, drysalteries, dyeabilities, dynastically, farsightedly, fastidiously, idolatrously, indisputably, industrially, laryngitides, outlandishly, phosphatidyl, restrainedly, sadistically, staphylinids, stridulatory, syllabicated, syndactylies, syndactylism, syndetically, syndicalists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.