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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.
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.
The meaning of SEDATE is keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled. How to use sedate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Sedate.
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.
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: calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement. See examples of SEDATE used in a sentence.
Definition of sedate adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
: to give (a person or animal) drugs that cause relaxation or sleep. The doctor sedated the patient heavily. — often used as (be) sedated. The patient had to be sedated. The animal was heavily sedated during the procedure. SEDATE meaning: 1 : slow and relaxed; 2 : quiet and peaceful calm.
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 definition: Serenely deliberate, composed, and dignified in character or manner.
