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.
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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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Examples
- I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober gray dress. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A forfeit--a forfeit, shouted the robbers; a Saxon hath thirty zecchins, and returns sober from a village! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Great numbers of his most sober and valuable subjects were driven abroad by his religious persecutions, taking arts and industries with them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone, I persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I had assured myself that the man was sober as well as civil before I let her enter the vehicle. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Tarzan shook his head, and an expression of wistful and pathetic longing sobered his laughing eyes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- We laid him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to relieve his pain. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Suddenly he was sobered: a vacant space appeared near Miss de Bassompierre; the circle surrounding her seemed about to dissolve. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His ducking sobered him a little, and he went to sleep, taking first out of his pocket a book which he desired I would dry for him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The sobered man was brought up and leaped out briskly on the grass. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But Celia was administering what she thought a sobering dose of fact. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sydney was none the livelier and none the soberer for so much application. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But we have plenty, and live well, nevertheless, though, by being soberer, we might be richer. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It had certainly not been produced by Selden's arguments, or by the action of his own soberer reason. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Plato says in effect: Let us take hold of life and remodel it; this soberer successor: Let us first know more of life and meanwhile serve the king. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He's my husband, and I shouldn't praise him; but I _will_ say there's not a soberer, honester man i' England nor he is. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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