Sober

Definition: Sober

Sober

Adjective

1. Not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol).

2. Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence".

3. Lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes".

4. Completely lacking in playfulness.

Verb

1. Cause to become sober; "A sobering thought".

2. Become more realistic; "After thinking about the potential consequences of his plan, he sobered up".

3. Become sober after excessive alcohol consumption; "Keep him in bed until he sobers up".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sober" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Note: Sober \Sober\, adjective. [Comparative Soberer; superlative Soberest.]. (Websters 1913)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sober

Dejection

Serious, sedate, staid, stayed; grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot; sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure; grim; grim-faced, grim-visaged; rueful, wan, long-faced.

Excitability

Adjective: inexcitable, unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible; (insensible); unpassionate, dispassionate; cold-blooded, irritable; enduring; Verb: stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed; sober, sober minded; grave; sober as a judge, grave as a judge; sedate, demure, cool-headed.

Intelligence Wisdom

Prudent; (cautious); sober, stand, solid; considerate, politic, wise in one's generation; watchful; provident; (prepared); in advance of one' age; wise as a serpent, wise as Solomon, wise as Solon.

Moderation

Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin.

Adjective: moderate; lenient; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered; Verb: calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon.

Sanity

Self-possessed; sober, sober-minded.

Render sane; adj; bring to one's senses, sober.

Temperance

Adjective: temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing; abstemious, abstinent; within compass; measured; (sufficient).

Crosswords: Sober

Dutch (abstemious, moderate, reasonable, sober, staid, temperate), Swedish (sober).

I'm always thinking of her, drunk or sober. What else is there to think about, except my job, my dirty job? (Touch of Evil; writing credit: Whit Masterson; Orson Welles)

You have to be sober for this. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I am so glad that I got sober now so I can be hyper-conscious for this series of humiliations. (Postcards from the Edge; writing credit: Carrie Fisher)

I'm not used to seeing you sober this time of day. (The Leech Woman; writing credit: David Duncan; Ben Pivar)

If we sober up, we'll never go through with this. (Flashback; writing credit: David Loughery)

We spent all day gettin sober (Hanginaround; performing artist: Counting Crows)

You pray to statues when you sober up for fun (Broadway; performing artist: Goo Goo Dolls)

I'm getting sober (Turn On Some Music; performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

When I'm slizzard or sober 6 million ways to fold ya (So Fresh, So Clean; performing artist: Outkast)

Or just drink myself sober again? (Until I Find You Again; performing artist: Richard Marx)

A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts. (references; author: unknown)

Clean and Sober (1988)

Proud and Sober Gay (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• John Cage Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind (reference)

• Living Sober (#2150) (reference)

• Sober As a Judge (reference)

• Sober for Good (reference)

• Sober...and Staying That Way: The Missing Link in the Cure for Alcoholism (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Clean and Sober (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Almost Sober (reference)

• Sober #1 [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Sober second thought". Credit: Library of Congress.

This may sober him up. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. (reference)

If we adhere faithfully to the Charter of the United Nations and walk forward in sedate and sober strength seeking no one's land or treasure, seeking to lay no arbitrary control upon the thoughts of men; if all British moral and material forces and convictions are joined with your own in fraternal association, the high-roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time, but for a century to come. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

His strength, which was prodigious, and very little diminished by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way notwithstanding.

And we often find by experience that young men are too opinionative and volatile to be guided by the sober dictates of their seniors.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

AA describes itself as a "worldwide fellowship of men and women who help each other to stay sober. (references)

However, even individuals who are determined to stay sober may suffer one or several "slips," or relapses, before achieving long-term sobriety. (references)

Keep in mind, too, that every day that a recovering alcoholic has stayed sober prior to a relapse is extremely valuable time, both to the individual and to his or her family. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "sober": appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober ♦ be as sober as a judge ♦ become sober ♦ cold sober ♦ dull sober somber subfusc ♦ get sober ♦ house of sober second thought ♦ in sober fact ♦ make sober ♦ sober as a judge ♦ sober down ♦ sober minded ♦ sober reality ♦ sober senses ♦ sober truth ♦ sober up ♦ the sober truth. Additional references.

Beginning with "sober": sober-blooded, sober-headed, sober-looking, Sober-minded, Sober-mindedness, sober-suited.

Ending with "sober": half-sober, stone-sober, too-sober.

Containing "sober": stone-cold-sober-seeming.

Afrikaans

besadig (abstemious, moderate, reasonable, staid, temperate). (various references)

Albanian

kthjellohem (clear, clear up), i matur (abstinent, calculating, canny, careful, cautious, chary, chaste, circumlocutory, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, deliberate, discreet, forehanded, gingerly, judicious, moderate, provident, prudent, reasonable, staid, thoughtful, wary, well advised, well balanced), i kthjellët (bright, clear, clear-sighted, cloudless, fair, light, limpid, liquid, lucid, luminary, pellucid, perspicuous, unclouded), i esëllt (teetotal), dehur (drunk, intoxicated), bëhem esëll. (various references)

Arabic 

‏متسم بالإعتدال, ‏متزن (grave, sedate, self possessed, solemn), ‏هادئ (calm, cloistered, composed, cool, dispassionate, easygoing, even, impassive, imperturbable, laid back, peaceable, peaceful, piping, placid, possessed, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, self possessed, serene, steady, still, tranquil, undisturbed, uneventful, unflappable, unmoved, unruffled, windless), ‏هدأ (allay, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, calm down, cool, die down, dust, ease, hush, keep quiet, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quench, quieten, relieve, rest, salve, settle, settle down, simmer, smooth, soothe, stay, steady, still, subside, supple, sweeten, tranquillize), ‏قنوع (pleased, temperate), ‏وقور (lordly, magisterial, proper, sedate, serious, solemn, staid, thoughtful), ‏واقعي (actual, concrete, de facto, down to earth, factual, hard, hardheaded, literal, naturalistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, prose, real, realistic, tangible, true, virtual), ‏غير زاه, ‏عفيف (chaste, continent, pure, virgin, virtuous), ‏صحا (clear, clear up), ‏رزين (calm, demure, grave, level, level headed, matronly, portentous, sedate, serious, sober minded, staid, stoical), ‏رصين (calm, equable, equal, sedate, serious, sober minded, solemn, solid, staid, steady, thoughtful), ‏راشد (adult, elder, grown up, legally major, major, mature, orthodox, reasonable, sensible). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ставам по-сериозен, умерен (abstemious, abstinent, conservative, equable, frugal, gentle, medium, mezzo, mild, moderate, philosophical, reasonable, restrained, slack, sparing, temperate, tempered), убит (degraded, grey, murdered, subdued, subfusc), сериозен (earnest, grave, heavy, intent, prayerful, sad, sage, sedate, serious, solemn, somber, sombre, staid, steady, straight), трезвен (abstinent, teetotal), трезв, отрезвявам (become sober), отрезнявам, неярък, здрав (blooming, durable, entire, fast, fit, flourishing, flush, good, hard, healthful, healthy, hearty, hefty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rude, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, secure, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure footed, taintless, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, vigorous, well, well-conditioned, without scathe), преставам да върша глупости, порядъчен (considerable, nice, orderly, respectable, steady, straightforward, tidy, upright, well-regulated), изтрезнявам. (various references)

Chinese 

清�' (clear-headed). (various references)

Czech

střízlivý (cold, Douce, down to earth, hard-headed, sober minded), střídmý (abstemious, sparing, temperate), vystřízlivìt, rozvážný (calm, circumspect, collected, deliberate, discreet, politic, responsible, sedate, serene), prostý (austere, chaste, coarse, frugal, homely, naked, plain, rustic, simple, single, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unworldly, vulgar), mírný (balmy, benign, easygoing, equable, genial, gentle, lamblike, lenient, light, meek, mild, moderate, placid, quiet, reasonable, slow, soft, tame, temperate, unruffled), klidný (calm, collected, composed, cool, easy, halcyon, impassive, imperturbable, laid back, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, self possessed, serene, silent, smooth, still, temperate, tranquil, uneventful, unmoved, unperturbed). (various references)

Danish

ædru. (various references)

Dutch

nuchter (abstemious, academic, staid, temperate). (various references)

Esperanto

sobra (abstemious, staid, temperate), malebria. (various references)

Faeroese

gløggur (abstemious, acute, astute, intelligent, sagacious, shrewd, staid, temperate). (various references)

Farsi 

میانه رو (Moderate), موقر (Demure, Grave, Sedate, Solemn, Staid), متین (Demure, Douce, Placid, Sedate, Serene), معتدل (Green, Medium, Middleman, Mild, Moderate, Modest, Sane), هوشیاربودن , هوشیار (Alert, Astute, Cautious, Conscious, Observant, Vigilant), سنگین (Burdensome, Cumbersome, Demure, Earnest, Grave, Heavy, Hefty, Laden, Lumpy, Onerous, Ponderous, Staid, Stodgy, Unwieldy, Weighty), عاقل (Canny, Sagacious, Sage, Sane, Wise), ازمستی دراوردن , بهوش اوردن (Resuscitate), بهوش (Conscious). (various references)

Finnish

selvä (clear, distinct, lucid, obvious, plain, unmistakable), raitistaa (freshen), raitis (cool, fresh, teetotal, teetotaller), maltillinen (calm, collected, level-headed, moderate, self-possessed). (various references)

French

sobre (sober minded). (various references)

German

nüchtern (abstemious, arid, austere, bare, bland, businesslike, demure, down to earth, dry, dull, hard-headed, insipid, jejune, jejunely, levelheaded, literal, matter of fact, mundane, no-nonsense, plain, prosaic, prosaically, rational, sober minded, soberly, staid, temperate, unemotional, unemotionally), ernüchtern (bring down to earth, chasten, sober up, to sober). (various references)

Greek 

σοβαρόσ (burning, demure, earnest, grave, important, matronal, matronly, saturnine, sedate, serious, solemn, staid), νηφάλιοσ (clear headed, staid), εγκρατήσ (abstainer, abstemious, abstinent, continent, self contained, temperate), αμέθυστοσ (inintoxicated). (various references)

Hawaiian

dehur (drunk, intoxicated). (various references)

Hebrew 

מיושב ב�"עתו (composed, even tempered, level headed, self possessed, staid, steady), לפכח (make sober), פכח (sober minded), צלול �"עת. (various references)

Hungarian

mértékletes (abstemious, frugal, moderate, self-denying), józan (advised, clear-headed, discrimination, Douce, down to earth, hard-headed, judicious, moderate, philosophic, philosophical, sane, sensible, sound, steady). (various references)

Indonesian

seadanya (potluck). (various references)

Italian

sobrio (abstinent, moderate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

渋い (an aura of refined masculinity, astringent, bitter, grim, quiet, stingy, sullen, tasteful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すめ�" (sober face), しぶい (an aura of refined masculinity, astringent, bitter, grim, quiet, stingy, sullen, tasteful), しらふ (sobriety). (various references)

Korean 

맑은 � �� (soberness). (various references)

Manx

sheeltagh (fluid, sobering, temperate), sheelt (abstemious, moderate, temperate), sheelaghey (clarification, clarification honey, filter, multiply, refine, soil, soil as milk, strain off). (various references)

Papiamen

burachi. (various references)

Pig Latin

obersay

Portuguese

sóbrio (abstemious, abstinent, austere, frugal, restrained, staid, temperate, terse). (various references)

Romanian

stãpânit (continent, pent up, phlegmatic), sobru (abstemious, abstinent, austere, severe, soberly, sparing, temperate, temperately), serios (appreciable, demure, earnest, earnestly, genuine, grave, gravely, grievously, important, in earnest, in good earnest, intimate, matronal, minded, reliable, sad, sedate, serious, serious minded, seriously, seriousness, severe, solemn, solid, staid, steady, stern, valid, weighty, well-conducted), trezi din beţie, treaz (alert, astir, awake, sleepless, slumberless, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, watchful, watching), potolit (becalmed, calm, dim, mellow, quiet, relieved, sedate, still, undisturbed), potoli (becalm, compromise, dulcify, dull, hush, lighten, lull, mollify, quench, quiet, reassure, relieve, slack, slake, smooth, smooth down, solace, stay, still, subdue, suppress, sweeten, temper, tranquillize), liniştit (breathless, calm, calmly, comfortable, composed, cool, dead, dispassionate, easy, even, gentle, gently, gently-sloping, halcyon, imperturbable, in comfortable circumstances, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, peaceful, peacefully, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, serene, silent, slow, smooth, soft, still, tranquil, unabashed, unruffled, untroubled), cumpãtat (abstemious, abstinent, measured, mild, moderate, reserved, temperate, thrifty, well balanced), care n-a bãut, calma (allay, appease, becalm, calm, chasten, compose, ease, kill, mollify, pacify, quiet, salve, settle, smooth, smooth down, soften, soothe, steady, still, temper, tranquillize), calm (calm, calmly, calmness, collected, collectedness, composed, composure, cool, coolness, dispassionate, easily, easy, equal, equanimity, even, even tempered, evenness, genial, halcyon, lull, passionless, peace, peaceful, peacefully, phlegmatic, placid, placidity, poise, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, sedate, serene, serenity, silence, smooth, sobriety, still, temper, tranquil, tranquillity, unhurried, unruffled, untroubled), aşezat (reliable, seated, sedate, serious, seriously, situated, sober minded, staid, steady, wise). (various references)

Russian 

рассудительный (judicious, level headed, reasonable, sage, sensible), трезвый (abstinent, hardheaded, sober minded, teetotal), отрезвить. (various references)

Scottish

stuama (abstemious, modest, temperate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzdržljiv (abstemious, abstinent, continent, offish, restrained, self contained), trezven (abstinent, sober minded), trezniti se, trezan. (various references)

Spanish

sobrio (abstemious, abstentious, levelheaded, sober minded, sober-headed, soberly). (various references)

Swedish

sansad (dispassionate, level headed, moderate, sober minded), nykter (abstinent, arid, hardheaded, literal, temperate). (various references)

Tagalog

lasíng, langô. (various references)

Thai

เอาจริงเอาจัง (earnest, solemn). (various references)

Turkish

sade (artless, austere, bald, bare, chaste, frugal, frugally, homely, homespun, just, mere, merely, only, plain, pure, rustic, severe, simple, simplificative, stark, unadorned, unmixed, unsophisticated), mat (checkmate, darkish, dull, lackluster, lacklustre, mat, mate, Matt, opaque), makul (acceptable, comprehensible, conceivable, fair, judicious, just, level, logical, moderate, plausible, possible, probable, reasonable, sane, sensible, sober minded), içkide aşırıya kaçmayan, gösterişsiz (chaste, conservative, fluffy, homely, homespun, modest, plain, poor looking, rustic, simple, undemanding, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious), ciddi (austere, businesslike, capital, critical, demure, devout, earnest, eventful, forbidding, grave, gut, important, momentous, mortally, sedate, serious, sober minded, solemn, staid, starched, unsmiling), ayıltmak (bring round, bring smb. to his senses, bring through, resuscitate, sober up), aklını başına getirmek (bring smb. to his senses, disenchant, sober up, undeceive), akla yatkın (earthly, probable, rational, reasonable, sane), ağırbaşlı (austere, calm, demure, dignified, earnest, graceful, grand, imperturbable, matronly, only, sage, sedate, serious, sober minded, solemn, staid), aşırıya kaçmayan, ölçülü (careful, conservative, continent, demure, dimensional, level, measurable, measured, mensurable, moderate, restrained, size, sized, sober minded, temperate). (various references)

Turkmen 

sersag, aсly. (various references)

Ukrainian

яскравий (bright, brilliant, catchy, cheesy, colorful, colourful, flamboyant, flaming, florid, garish, gorgeous, high-colored, high-coloured, illustrious, lightsome, noisy, obvious, oriental, pictorial, picturesque, powerful, quicksilver, starry, vivid), розсудливий (advisable, canny, conscious, healthy, judicial, judicious, politic, prudent, prudential, reasonable, sober minded, wholesome, wise), тверезий (abstinent), охолонути, охолоджувати (chill, cool, refresh, refrigerate), протверезитися, протвережувати (chasten), поміркований (abstentious, abstinent, conservative, judicious, moderate, restrained, wise). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khiêm tốn nhã, không thiên vị (cross-bench, dispassionate, fair, fair-minded, impartial), không say rượu điều độ điềm tĩnh, điềm đạm đúng mức. (various references)

Welsh

syber (clean, decent, tidy), sobreiddio, sobr (abstemious, abstinent, serious), sad (firm, solid, steady), difrifoli (solemnize). (various references)

moderate, moderato, sana, sanaballat, sanae, sanam, sani, sanis, sanorum, sanum, sanus, sanusne, sobriam, sobrias, sobrie, sobrii, sobrium, sobrius. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sober": sobered, soberer, soberest, sobering, soberize, soberized, soberizes, soberizing, soberly, soberness, sobernesses, sobers, sobersided, sobersidedness, sobersidednesses, sobersides. (additional references)

Words ending with "sober": unsober. (additional references)

Words containing "sober": chrysoberyl, chrysoberyls. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sober" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asabere, dober, Esber, Esjberg, Oberg, Osberht, Osberto, Oseberg, Sabej, sabey, Sabreur, S'been, sber, scoober, sebeb, Sekber, selber, Siberry, Sibert, sieberi, silber, siober, slobier, smober, snobber, snoober, sobe, sobel, soben, sobert, sobery, sobev, sobor, sobre, socer, soeb, soer, somer, sonber, soner, soter, soxer, Sporborg, suber, suberb, Subero, subert, submer, syber, zobe, zuberi. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bores, brose, robes.

-1 letter: bore, bros, eros, obes, orbs, ores, rebs, robe, robs, roes, rose, sorb, sore.

-2 letters: bos, bro, ers, obe, oes, orb, ore, ors, ose, reb, res, rob, roe, ser, sob.

-3 letters: be, bo, er, es, oe, or, os, re, so.

+1 letter: bevors, boners, borers, bosker, bourse, bowers, boxers, bromes, broses, browse, desorb, ombers, ombres, probes, rebops, resorb, ribose, robles, sobber, sobers, somber, sombre, sorbed, sorbet, strobe.

+2 letters: aerobes, arbores, bedsore, bescour, bestrow, bettors, beworms, bezoars, blowers, boaster, boaters, bobbers, boilers, boleros, bolster, bolters, bombers, bonders, bonkers, boogers, bookers, boomers, booster, boozers, boppers, boraces, borages, boranes, borates, boraxes, bordels, borders, boreens, borides, bortzes, boskier, bossier, bothers, bournes, bourses, bowlers, bowyers, bravoes, brogues, brokers, bronzes, browsed, browser, browses, cobbers, combers, corbels, corbies, debtors, desorbs, disrobe, dobbers, embryos, enrobes, goobers, hombres, isobare, jerboas, jobbers, lobbers, lobster, mobbers, mobster, obeyers, obscure, observe, obtuser, obverse, obverts, orbiest, ourebis, probers, rebatos, reboils, rebooks, reboots, rebores, rebozos, recombs, resorbs, rheboks, riboses, robbers, rosebay, rosebud, roubles, saprobe, slobber, sobbers, sobered, soberer, soberly, sorbate, sorbent, sorbets, sorbose, strobes, subzero, swobber, unrobes, unsober, verbose.

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