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adjective
- 1. calm, dignified, and unhurried: "in the old days, business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace" Similar Opposite
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SEDATE definition: 1. avoiding excitement or great activity and usually calm and relaxed: 2. to cause a person or…. Learn more.
The meaning of SEDATE is keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled. How to use sedate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Sedate.
Sedate means to be calm, but if a doctor sedates you it means you've been administered a tranquilizing drug. Most surgeries require some form of sedation, but to be sedate in day-to-day life means composed, quiet, and serene. Not necessarily unconscious.
Sedate definition: calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement. See examples of SEDATE used in a sentence.
If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull. She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins. Her London life was sedate, almost mundane. I live in a sedate little village in the Midlands. Synonyms: calm, collected, quiet, seemly More Synonyms of sedate.
Definition of sedate adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. habitually calm and composed in manner; serene. 2. staid, sober, or decorous. [C17: from Latin sēdāre to soothe; related to sedēre to sit] seˈdately adv. seˈdateness n. sedate. ( sɪˈdeɪt) vb. (Medicine) ( tr) to administer a sedative to. [C20: back formation from sedative]
SEDATE definition: 1. calm and slow: 2. to give a person or animal a drug to make them feel calm. Learn more.
1. If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull. [...] 2. If you move along at a sedate pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way. [...] 3. If someone is sedated, they are given a drug to calm them or to make them sleep. [...] More. Conjugations of 'sedate'
sedate somebody/something to give somebody drugs in order to make them calm and/or to make them sleep synonym tranquillize. Most of the patients are heavily sedated. A vet was called to sedate the animal.
