Difference between Decorous and Staid

DECOROUS vs STAID: NOUN

Marked by proper behavior.
Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting
Characterized by or exhibiting decorum; proper.
According with custom or propriety
Characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct

Always fixed in the same location; stationary
Serious, organized, and professional; sober
Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful.
Fixed; permanent.
Characterized by sedateness and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; serious and conventional.
Characterized by dignity and propriety

Synonyms Fit, seemly, comely, orderly, appropriate.
Characterized by or conspicuous for decorum; proper; decent; especially (of persons), formally polite and proper in speech and conduct.

Imp. & p. p. of stay.
Sober; grave; steady; sedate; regular; not wild, volatile, flighty, or fanciful: as, a staid elderly person.

Mannered, Demure, Polite, Mannerly, Gentlemanly, Genteel, In good taste, Becoming, Decent, Proper, Comely, Comme il faut, Staid, Sedate, Seemly

Dull, Hidebound, Stolid, Genteel, Stodgy, Grave, Serious, Reserved, Formal, Sober, Conservative, Demure, Stuffy, Decorous, Sedate

Mannered, Demure, Polite, Mannerly, Gentlemanly, Genteel, In good taste, Becoming, Decent, Proper, Comely, Comme il faut, Staid, Sedate, Seemly

Dull, Hidebound, Stolid, Genteel, Stodgy, Grave, Serious, Reserved, Formal, Sober, Conservative, Demure, Stuffy, Decorous, Sedate

To make this meaningless life more dignified and decorous, choices are to be made.
The public wants free and open, yet decorous, discussion on bills and other measures.
Parliaments, and which were designed to secure decorous and orderly debate.
Unsufferable to find tabu any detailed plans on the net for devising decorous studio desks.
On the way they had a dull, decorous lunch at an inn.
Becoming, suitable, fit, proper, right, meet, seemly, appropriate, congruous, decorous.
Katherine of Braganza was still decorous, though not irreproachable.
Urbane; polite: respectful: kind; obliging; decorous; decent: courteous.
SYN: true, exact, faultless, accurate, proper, decorous, right.
Proper, becoming, fit, befitting, suitable, decorous, seemly, comely.

Life in banking cubicles can be fraught, staid, and tedious.
Irene Sanford our girl staid at home with me.
Hardly the thing for a staid married lady, what.
We staid, and after business done I got Mr.
Friends, and staid at his Bros over night.
DC tends to be more staid than NYC.
Gregory, Barrow, and others staid to meet me.
Remember, it was still the staid Victorian era.
Fuller came thither and staid a little, while.
To the office, all the afternoon I staid there, and in the evening went to Westminster Hall, where I staid at Mrs.