Antonyms for sedate

Grammar : Adj

Spell : si-deyt

Phonetic Transcription : sɪˈdeɪt

Definition of sedate

Origin : "calm, quiet," 1660s, from Latin sedatus "composed, moderate, quiet, tranquil," past participle of sedare "to settle, calm," causative of sedere "to sit" (see sedentary). Related: Sedately.

adj calm, collected

Example sentences :

I love to hear you talk, when you are so sedate as you seem now to be.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

I had been told that the English were cold and sedate: I found them charming and full of humour.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

We grew sedate; sedate were the brows of the few strangers we met.
Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable

Grave and sedate, as if knowing the sorrowful thoughts of his master.
Extract from : « Poems » by William D. Howells

The one servant of the house waited at table, prim, sedate, formal.
Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill

Barbara Hallenbeck, his quiet, sedate cousin, was four-and-twenty.
Extract from : « Pretty Madcap Dorothy » by Laura Jean Libbey

"Distinctly," he answered in his sedate, veiled voice and then coughed a little.
Extract from : « Some Reminiscences » by Joseph Conrad

It was so different from the habitual silence of these sedate solitudes.
Extract from : « Snow-Bound at Eagle's » by Bret Harte

And you will tell John what a sedate and gentle companion I was?
Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

When there is the usual wrangle about going to bed, up he gets in his sedate way.
Extract from : « Danger! and Other Stories » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Synonyms for sedate

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