This adjective means the opposite of playful or drunk. When attending a funeral, you are expected to be sober in both senses.
Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate;
Verb
become sober after excessive alcohol consumption; "Keep him in bed until he sobers up"
Verb
become more realistic; "After thinking about the potential consequences of his plan, he sobered up"
Verb
cause to become sober; "A sobering thought"
Adjective S.
lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes"
Adjective
not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
Adjective S.
dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
Adjective
completely lacking in playfulness
superl.
Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually
temperate; as, a sober man.
superl.
Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as,
the sot may at times be sober.
superl.
Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with
passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled;
self-possessed.
superl.
Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm;
as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
superl.
Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or
color; solemn; grave; sedate.
v. t.
To make sober.
v. i.
To become sober; -- often with down.
Sober
That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of Thy holy name.2.
There was not a sober person to be had; all was tempestuous and blustering. Druden.No sober man would put himself into danger for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck.4.Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; 5.as, sober judgment; a man in hissober senses.Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate. What parts gay France from sober Spain?See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby.Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad.Syn. -- Grave; temperate; abstinent; abstemious; moderate; regular; steady; calm; quiet; cool; collected; dispassionate; unimpassioned; sedate; staid; serious; solemn; somber. See Grave .Sober
So"ber , v. t.[imp. & p. p. Sobered ; p. pr. & vb. n.Sobering .]To make sober. There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.Sober
So"ber , v. i.To become sober; -- often with down. Vance gradually sobered down.Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate;
as, a .sober manTo make sober.
To become sober; -- often with down.
Usage Examples
I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Other Usage ExamplesA drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
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