SEDATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does sedate mean?
• SEDATE (adjective)
The adjective SEDATE has 2 senses:
1. characterized by dignity and propriety
2. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
Familiarity information: SEDATE used as an adjective is rare.
• SEDATE (verb)
The verb SEDATE has 1 sense:
1. cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to
Familiarity information: SEDATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SEDATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Characterized by dignity and propriety
Synonyms:
staid; sedate
Similar:
decorous (characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct)
Meaning:
Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
Synonyms:
grave; solemn; sedate; sober
Context examples:
a grave God-fearing man / a quiet sedate nature / as sober as a judge / a solemn promise / the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence
Similar:
serious (concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities)
• SEDATE (verb)
Meaning:
Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
sedate; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize; calm
Context example:
The patient must be sedated before the operation
Hypernyms (to "sedate" is one way to...):
affect (act physically on; have an effect upon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sedate"):
hypnotise; hypnotize; mesmerise; mesmerize (induce hypnosis in)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Antonym:
stimulate (cause to be alert and energetic)
