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   sedate

   /sɪˈdeɪt/

   adjective

   • 1. calm, dignified, and unhurried: "in the old days, business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace" Similar calmtranquilplacidcomposedserenesteadyunruffledimperturbableunflappabledignifiedseriousserious-mindedformaldecorousproperprimdemuresoberearneststaidstiffstuffyboringinformal:starchystick-in-the-mudslowunhurriedrelaxedleisurelyunrushedslow-movingslow-goingslow and steadyeasyeasy-goinggentlecomfortablerestfulundemandinglazylanguidlanguorousploddingdawdlingleisuredmeasuredsteadyinformal:laid-backOpposite excitingwildfast
   • ▪ quiet and rather dull: "sedate suburban domesticity"

   Word Origin late Middle English (originally as a medical term meaning ‘not sore or painful’, also ‘calm, tranquil’): from Latin sedatus, past participle of sedare ‘settle’, from sedere ‘sit’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. sedately adverb
   • 2. sedateness noun

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   What does sedate mean?

   • tranquilo, reposado, sedar… tranquilo, parado, sedar… Need a translator? Get a quick, free translation! SEDATE definition: 1. avoiding excitement or great activity and usually calm and relaxed: 2. to cause a person or….

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   How do you describe a sedate person?

   • 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. ...sedately dressed in business suit with waistcoat.

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   What does it mean if a doctor sedates you?

   • 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. To be sedate when dining with the Queen means that you behaved with dignity and solemnity.

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   • se·date′ness n. To administer a sedative to (a person or animal); calm by means of a sedative drug. [Back-formation from sedative and sedation .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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     to cause a person or animal to be very calm or go to sleep...

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     sedate definicja: 1. avoiding excitement or great activity...

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   The meaning of SEDATE is keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled. How to use sedate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Sedate.

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   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.

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   Sedate definition: calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement. See examples of SEDATE used in a sentence.

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   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.

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   SEDATE definition: 1. calm and slow: 2. to give a person or animal a drug to make them feel calm. Learn more.