Synonyms for sedate
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : si-deyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : sɪˈdeɪt |
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Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for sedate
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