adjective, verb
adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 slow, calm and relaxed
SYNUNHURRIED:
a sedate game of golf * We followed the youngsters at a more sedate pace.
2 quiet, especially in a way that lacks excitement:
a sedate country town * a sedate family occasion
3 (of a person) quiet and serious in a way that seems formal:
a sedate, sober man
sedately adverb
verb [VN] [oftenpassive] to give sb drugs in order to make them calm and or to make them sleep:
Most of the patients are heavily sedated. * A vet was called to sedate the animal.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sedate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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