[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sober \sober\, a. compar. soberer; superl. soberest. oe.
   sobre, f. sobre, from l. sobrius, probably from a prefix so-
   expressing separation + ebrius drunken. cf. ebriety.
   1. temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually
      temperate; as, a sober man.
      1913 webster

            that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and
            sober life, to the glory of thy holy name. --bk. of
                                                  com. prayer.
      1913 webster

   2. not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the
      sot may at times be sober.
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   3. not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with
      passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason;
      self-controlled; self-possessed.
      1913 webster

            there was not a sober person to be had; all was
            tempestuous and blustering. --druden.
      1913 webster

            no sober man would put himself into danger for the
            applause of escaping without breaking his neck.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as,
      sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
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   5. serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or
      color; solemn; grave; sedate.
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            what parts gay france from sober spain? --prior.
      1913 webster

            see her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed
            baby.                                 --pope.
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            twilight gray
            had in her sober livery all things clad. --milton.
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   syn: grave; temperate; abstinent; abstemious; moderate;
        regular; steady; calm; quiet; cool; collected;
        dispassionate; unimpassioned; sedate; staid; serious;
        solemn; somber. see grave.
        1913 webster
see also:
soberer soberest ebriety grave 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sober \so"ber\, v. t. imp.  p. p. sobered; p. pr.  vb. n.
   sobering.
   to make sober.
   1913 webster

         there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
         and drinking largely sobers us again.    --pope.
   1913 webster
see also:
sobered sobering 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sober \so"ber\, v. i.
   to become sober; -- often with down.
   1913 webster

         vance gradually sobered down.            --ld. lytton.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

sober
     adj 1: not affected by a chemical substance especially alcohol
            ant: intoxicated
     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" syn: grave,
         sedate, solemn
     3: lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains";
        "sober puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes"
        syn: drab, somber, sombre
     4: completely lacking in playfulness syn: unplayful, serious
        ant: playful
     v 1: cause to become sober; "a sobering thought"
     2: become more realistic; "after thinking about the potential
        consequences of his plan, he sobered up" syn: sober up
     3: become sober after excessive alcohol consumption; "keep him
        in bed until he sobers up" syn: sober up
see also:
intoxicated grave sedate solemn drab somber 
sombre unplayful serious playful sober up 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

298 moby thesaurus words for "sober":
   quaker-colored, spartan, abstaining, abstentious, abstinent, acier,
   aristocratic, ascetic, ashen, ashy, august, austere, awe-inspiring,
   balanced, bald, bare, blackish, bland, calm, candid, canescent,
   cinereous, cinerous, cogitative, cognitive, cold sober, collected,
   colorless, common, commonplace, commonsense, composed,
   concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual,
   conceptualized, constrained, contemplating, contemplative,
   continent, controlled, cool, coolheaded, courtly, creamy, dapple,
   dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dark-colored, darkish,
   darksome, decorous, deliberating, deliberative, delicate, demure,
   detoxify, dignified, dingy, direct, disciplined, dismal,
   dispassionate, dove-colored, dove-gray, down-to-earth, drab,
   dreary, dry, dull, dusk, dusky, dusty, earnest, eggshell,
   eschewing, excogitating, fatal, fateful, flat, forbearing,
   forgoing, formal, formidable, frank, frowning, frugal, funereal,
   gentle, glaucescent, glaucous, gloss, grand, grave, gray,
   gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
   gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grim,
   grim-faced, grim-visaged, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly,
   hard, hard-boiled, hardheaded, heavy, homely, homespun, ideative,
   imperturbable, imposing, inhibited, introspective, iridescent,
   iron-gray, judicious, kingly, lead-gray, leaden, lean,
   level-headed, levelheaded, light, livid, logical, long-faced,
   lordly, low-key, magisterial, majestic, matter-of-fact, measured,
   meditating, meditative, mellow, mental, mild, mild as milk,
   moderate, mother-of-pearl, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy,
   museful, musing, nacreous, natural, neat, neutral, nigrescent,
   no-nonsense, noble, noetic, nonviolent, opalescent, open,
   pacifistic, pale, pastel, patinaed, peaceable, peaceful, pearl,
   pearl-gray, pearly, pensive, philosophical, placid, plain,
   plain-speaking, plain-spoken, pondering, portentous, practical,
   pragmatic, prehensive, princely, proper, prosaic, prosing, prosy,
   prudent, pure, queenly, quiet, rational, realistic, reasonable,
   recover, reflecting, reflective, refraining, regal, repressed,
   reserved, restrained, royal, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative,
   rustic, sad, sane, sedate, self-controlled, self-disciplined,
   self-possessed, semigloss, sensible, serene, serious, severe,
   silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, simple, simple-speaking,
   slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober-minded, sobersided,
   soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, solemn, somber, sombrous,
   sound, spare, sparing, speculative, staid, stark, stately,
   statuesque, steady, steel-gray, steely, stinting, stone-colored,
   stone-faced, straight-faced, straightforward, subdued, subtle,
   swart, swarthy, sweet, tame, taupe, teetotal, temperate, tender,
   thinking, thought, thoughtful, together, tranquil, unadorned,
   unaffected, undrunk, undrunken, unexcited, unflustered,
   unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninebriate,
   uninebrious, unintoxicated, unperturbed, unpoetical, unruffled,
   unsmiling, untipsy, unvarnished, venerable, weighty, well-balanced,
   wistful, worthy

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