Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - sedate
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Sedate
sedate
I. adjective Etymology: Latin sedatus, from past participle of sedare to calm; akin to sedere to sit — more at sit Date: 1663 keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace ; unruffled Synonyms: see serious • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun II. transitive verb (~d; sedating) Etymology: back-formation from sedative Date: 1945 to dose with sedatives
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1. adj. tranquil and dignified; equable, serious. Derivatives sedately adv. sedateness n. Etymology: L sedatus past part. of sedare settle f. sedere sit 2. v.tr. put under sedation. Etymology: back-form. f. SEDATION ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. степенный, уравновешенный; спокойный sedate in manner —- степенный sedate in speech —- со спокойной (размеренной) речью 2. успокаивать, особ. лекарствами; усыплять (снотворным) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
3.
adj. спокойный, степенный, уравновешенный Syn: earnest, grave, serious, sober, solemn, staid Ant: easy-going, flighty, frivolous, jaunty, light-hearted ...Англо-русский словарь
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(sedates, sedating, sedated) 1. 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... ADJ: usu ADJ n • sedately ...sedately dressed in business suit with waistcoat. ADV: ADV with v 2. If you move along at a sedate pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way. We set off again at a more sedate pace. ADJ: usu ADJ n • sedately He pulled sedately out of the short driveway. ADV: ADV after v 3. If someone is sedated, they are given a drug to calm them or to make them sleep. The patient is sedated with intravenous use of sedative drugs... Doctors have been told not to sedate children with an anaesthetic that may be linked to five deaths. VERB: be V-ed, V n • sedated Grace was asleep, lightly sedated. ADJ: v-link ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~1 adj 1 moving in a slow and rather formal way (a sedate procession) 2 peaceful, ordinary, and not very exciting (a sedate seaside town on the South Coast) - sedately adv - sedateness n ~2 v T often passive to make someone sleepy or calm by giving them drugs ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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