Difference Between "Staid" and "Stayed" [closed]

Solution 1:

According to the Grammarist, staid is an adjective and its meaning and usage differs from the homophonic stayed:

Staid is an adjective that means settled, unadventurous, sedate, steady of character. Staid is usually employed to signify someone stodgy or dull. The adverb form is staidly, the noun form is staidness. Staid as an adjectival use of the past participle stayed came about in the 1540s, within a decade it came to mean sober and sedate.

Stayed is the past participle of the verb stay, meaning to remain in the same place, to reside in a dwelling, often meant temporarily.

• In South Africa and Scotland, stay may mean a place where one lives permanently. Stay can also mean to delay leaving.

The word stay appears in the middle of the fifteenth century, meaning cease going forward, halt, detain, hold back. Stay comes from the Old French estare, meaning to stay or stand, by way of the Latin word stare, meaning to stand, stand still, remain standing, be erect, stand firm, stand firm in battle, be unmovable, linger. Stay with the meaning to reside as a guest for a short period is first recorded in the 1570s.