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Definition: Sobering |
SoberingAdjective1. Tending to make sober or more serious; "the news had a sobering effect". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sobering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
Crosswords: Sobering |
| English words defined with "sobering": sober. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Stairs can be sobering (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Tom Lehrer | It is a sobering thought, for instance, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Recording everything you eat or drink tends to be a sobering and instructive experience. (references) | |
Business | Considering there are about 340 million cars total in use in the world today, the environmental implications are sobering. (references) | |
Economic History | Nigeria | Although grappling with the sobering reality of falling oil revenue, Nigeria continues to represent an important market. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | To speak from this same historic rostrum is a sobering experience. |
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| "Sobering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 54.84% of the time. "Sobering" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 54.84% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 41.94% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sobering": sobering-up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sobering up | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sobering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kthjellje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حكمة (aphorism, discreetness, foresight, maxim, policy, proverb, prudence, sagacity, sapience, say, wholesomeness, wisdom), تفتح (bloom, blossom, dehisce, open, unfold, unlatch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отрезвителен (chastening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vedoucí k střízlivosti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sapience, qui donne réfléchir, prudence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ernüchternd (chastening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "תפקחות, "תפכחות (disillusionment, sobriety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kijózanítás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "い'め (recovering from intoxication, sobering up), "い覚め (recovering from intoxication, sobering up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | よいざめ (recovering from intoxication, sobering up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheeltagh (fluid, sober, temperate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oberingsay отрезвление (sobering-up). (various references) trežnjenje. (various references) ayılma (revival). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Sobering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Coberine, Dobbertin, ogering, snobbering, Subirana. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sobering" (pronounced sō"bering) |
| 4 | -b er i ng | belaboring, clobbering, dismembering, harboring, laboring, lumbering, neighboring, numbering, outnumbering, remembering, slobbering, slumbering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neutering, nonmanufacturing, nurturing, offering, ordering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: bingers, biogens, borings, eringos, ignores, regions, signore, sorbing. | |
-2 letters: begins, beings, binger, binges, bingos, biogen, bogies, boners, bonier, boring, brines, brings, eringo, genros, gibers, gibson, girons, gobies, goners, grison, groins, ignore, irones, nosier, orbing, orgies, region, reigns, renigs, resign, ribose, robing, robins, rosing, senior, sering, signer, signor, singer, soigne, soring. | |
-3 letters: begin, being. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-i-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: desorbing, neighbors, observing, resorbing, ringbones, subregion. | |
+2 letters: aborigines, bescouring, bestrowing, bioregions, bolstering, boringness, brokerings, corbelings, lobstering, neighbours, slobbering, soberizing, subregions. | |
+3 letters: bescorching, beshrouding, fibrinogens, forebodings, lobsterings, observingly, reabsorbing, reobserving, subregional. | |
+4 letters: bedcoverings, bioengineers, boringnesses, bowdlerising, chemisorbing, embryogenies, fingerboards, herringbones, interrobangs, loganberries, negrophobias, nonbreedings, outbreedings, overbrowsing, urbanologies, youngberries. | |
+5 letters: antibourgeois, bioenergetics, boardinghouse, crossbreeding, embryogenesis, housebreaking, incorrigibles, interboroughs, letterboxings, lingonberries, microbrewings, neighborhoods, skateboarding, subgeneration. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 62 65 72 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- -... . .-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01100010 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o b e r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0062 0065 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5381687184758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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