Sober

['səʊbə] or ['sobɚ]

Definition

(verb.) cause to become sober; 'A sobering thought'.

(adj.) not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) .

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Definition

(superl.) Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.

(superl.) Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.

(superl.) Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.

(superl.) Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.

(superl.) Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.

(v. t.) To make sober.

(v. i.) To become sober; -- often with down.

Checker: Nathan

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Temperate, abstemious, abstinent, not drunken.[2]. Calm, moderate, cool, composed, unruffled, unimpassioned, dispassionate, steady, sedate, demure, staid, rational.[3]. Grave, solemn, serious, pensive.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Temperate, unintoxicated, cool, dispassionate, reasonable, culm,self-possessed, sound, unexcited, serious, grave, sedate, steady, abstemious,moderate

ANT:Intemperate, drunk, intoxicated, heated, excited, impassioned,{[{[unr<*aonnWp]?}, {[unr<*aonnWp_agitated, furious, passionate,extravagant, extreme, exorbitant, immoderate, flighty, erratic, eccentric

Edited by Leah

Definition

adj. not wild or passionate: self-possessed: sedate: grave: calm: regular: simple in colour sombre: not drunk: temperate esp. in the use of liquors: (Scot.) poor feeble.—v.t. to make sober: to free from intoxication.—adj. Sō′ber-blood′ed cool.—v.t. Sō′berise to make sober.—adv. Sō′berly.—adj. Sō′ber-mind′ed habitually calm and temperate.—ns. Sō′ber-mind′edness the state of being sober-minded: freedom from inordinate passion: calmness; Sō′berness; Sō′bersides a sedate and solemn person.—adj. Sō′ber-suit′ed dressed in a suit of sad-coloured clothes.—n. Sōbrī′ety state or habit of being sober: calmness: gravity.

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