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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 sedative mean?

   • calm, serious and dignified. a sedate, middle-aged woman. to give a sedative. The doctor sedated her with some pills. (a medicine, drug etc) having a soothing or calming effect. This medicine will have a sedative effect. Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

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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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   What does sedation mean?

   • 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. All rights reserved.

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   What is a sedated horse?

   • a sedate horse. , se·dat·ed, se·dat·ing. to put (a person) under sedation. See staid. Baluška and his colleagues sedated plants that feature moving parts, such as Venus flytraps. He was put on a ventilator and spent several weeks heavily sedated. She was sedated against her will during childbirth and not allowed to hold her baby after he was born.

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