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UK
/sˈəʊbɐ/
]
[ US /ˈsoʊbɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsoʊbɝ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
- completely lacking in playfulness
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dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence
a grave God-fearing man
as sober as a judge
a solemn promise
a quiet sedate nature -
lacking brightness or color; dull
drab faded curtains
children in somber brown clothes
sober Puritan grey
VERB
-
become sober after excessive alcohol consumption
Keep him in bed until he sobers up -
become more realistic
After thinking about the potential consequences of his plan, he sobered up -
cause to become sober
A sobering thought
How To Use sober In A Sentence
- It was of a suitable Ash Wednesday character and left the congregation feeling sober and a little cast down.
- On his way out, he met Baldwin dressed soberly in a black frock coat and pantaloons.
- Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
- Everyone became equally loud, crude and garrulous, the technically sober behaving identically to the genuinely drunk.
- The paintings are some of the artist's most sober works, but there is a lightness of being at their core, as well.
- To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolute sober.
- The major difference is that in Shakespeare the symbolic opposition between the world of sober morality and that of holiday freedom is normally made internal to the play.
- A sober brick building, unpretentious in scale and design, lies modestly low among lawns at the end of a road with playing fields on either side.
- My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". G.K. Chesterton
- You are born-again, re-sobered, a former hardcore binge drinker and rumored huge fan of various illegal substances back in college, and you had at least one DUI arrest and went AWOL from the National Guard, and you've stashed away from public view all records of both your tenure as Texas governor, and those SEC investigations into your alleged insider trading. Chaos Theory: