sedate

Universal Words 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.