Sober
Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.
Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.
Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.
Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.
To make sober.
To become sober; -- often with down.
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Sober Quotations
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman Melville
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman Melville
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James
Sober Translations
sober in Dutch is nuchter
sober in Italian is digiuno
sober in Spanish is sobrio
sober in Swedish is sansad, nykter
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