sober

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. grave, quiet, sedate, staid, serious; abstemious; drab, plain, severe, unadorned; calm, moderate; thoughtful; subdued; inconspicuous; demure; earnest; solemn, somber. See moderation, inexcitability, dejection, sanity.Ant., intoxicated, drunk, flighty.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Solemn]

Syn. restrained, earnest, grave; see solemn 1 , serious 2 .

2. [Temperate]

Syn. abstemious, calm, pacific; see moderate 4 .

3. [Not drunk]

Syn. abstinent, serious, sedate, clear-headed, abstaining, self-possessed, calm, ascetic, non-indulgent, steady, dry, on the wagon*; see also moderate 5 .

See Synonym Study at serious .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

I

v.

sober up, dry out, *go through a detox facility.

II

a.

1. not drunk temperate, *stone cold sober, rational, lucid, clearheaded, *on the wagon, *detoxed, *dry, in possession of one's faculties, abstemious.

2. serious solemn, grave, unsmiling, somber, dignified, sedate, staid, earnest.

3. plain quiet, understated, mellow, subdued, dull, drab, simple.

ANT.: 1. drunk, intoxicated, inebriated, *hammered. 2. silly, giddy, jovial. 3. flashy, loud, ostentatious

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Exercising moderation and self-restraint in appetites and behavior: abstemious, continent, temperate. See RESTRAINT. 2. Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are: down-to-earth, hard, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, objective, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, prosaic, realistic, tough-minded, unro-mantic. See EXCITE, REAL. 3. Full of or marked by dignity and seriousness: earnest1, grave2, sedate, serious, solemn, somber, staid. See ATTITUDE, HEAVY.