sober
adjectifverbecourant dans les dialogues
- États-Unis//ˈsoʊ.bɚ//
- //ˈsəʊ.bə(ɹ)//
Not drunk; not intoxicated.
adjectif
- 1
Not drunk; not intoxicated.
- 2
Not under the influence of any recreational drug.
Ten months sober, I must admit Just because you're clean, don't mean you don't miss it
- 3
Not given to excessive drinking of alcohol.
Amid all the confusion and disorder that sin has introduced into the world, the Christian in union with God has a grace or Divine help that enables him to live the sober, self-restrained life.
After eliminating alcohol from their lives, some sober individuals exclusively date nondrinkers.
Rose told me that she's sober.
- 4
figuréModerate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled.
God help me to watch and to be sober.
[N]o ſober man vvould put himſelf into a danger for the Applauſe of ſcaping vvithout breaking his Neck.
Which is the finest and soberest state possible.
- 5
Dull; not bright or colorful.
Twilight grey / Had in her sober livery all things clad.
- 6
Subdued; solemn; grave.
See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby.
What parts gay France from sober Spain? A little rising rocky chain.
- 7
Poor; feeble.
Étymologie
Inherited from Middle English sober, from Old French sobre, from Latin sōbrius, from se- (“without”) + ebrius (“intoxicated”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”). In the sense "not drunk," displaced native undrunken, from Old English undruncen.
verbe
- 1
To make or become sober.
His expression sobered.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again.
The night air may have sobered him a bit by the time they got back to Beattock.
- 2
To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.
It took him hours to sober up.
- 3
To moderate one's feelings; to accept a disappointing reality after losing one's ability to believe in a fantastic goal.
Losing his job was a sobering experience.
Formes
- comparatif
- soberer
- superlatif
- soberest
- passé
- sobered
- participe passé
- sobered
- participe présent
- sobering
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- sobers
sober · Not drunk; not intoxicated.
Sober · A surname.sobriety · The quality or state of being sober.soccer · Association football.