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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.
to cause a person or animal to be very calm or go to sleep by giving them a drug: When I saw him after the accident he was still in shock and was heavily sedated. Synonyms.
The meaning of SEDATE is keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled. How to use sedate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Sedate.
Definition of sedate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull.
SEDATE definition: 1. calm and slow: 2. to give a person or animal a drug to make them feel calm. 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.
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 life was sedate, almost mundane.
1. habitually calm and composed in manner; serene. 2. staid, sober, or decorous. [C17: from Latin sēdāre to soothe; related to sedēre to sit] seˈdatelyadv. seˈdatenessn. sedate. ( sɪˈdeɪt) vb. (Medicine) ( tr) to administer a sedative to. [C20: back formation from sedative]
