Meanings (ES + gloss)
pausado • serio • tranquilo
Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.
As for Peter, he was the happiest of the happy, and had sung and whistled so joyously while skating that the staidest passers-by had smiled as they listened.
The hours of study, the hours of recreation, the sports, the pastimes, the casualties, which in the staider years of life pass without note or comment, alike are wrapped and muffle…
estable • estático • fijo • sedentario
Always fixed in the same location; stationary.
'Tis not age or height alone / Can secure the staidest throne / From the reach of Change or Death,— […]
[I]n a common sailor's life sleep is not a regular thing as we have it on shore, and perhaps that staid glazy and sedate-looking eye, which a hard-worked seaman usually has, is rea…