Synonyms of the word sober


SOBERALTER - BECOME - CHANGE - COLORLESS - COLOURLESS - DRAB - DRY - GET - GO - GRAVE - MODIFY - SEDATE - SERIOUS - SOLEMN - SOMBER - SOMBRE - TEETOTAL - UNINTOXICATED - UNPLAYFUL

sober

  • adj. not drunk; not intoxicated.
  • adj. not given to excessive drinking of alcohol.
  • adj. moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled.
  • adj. dull; not bright or colorful.
  • adj. subdued; solemn; grave.
  • v. (often with up) To make or become sober.
  • v. (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

become

  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
  • v. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
  • v. (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
  • v. (transitive) To be proper for; to befit.
  • v. (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

colorless

  • adj. American standard spelling of colourless.

colourless

  • adj. Having little or no colour.
  • adj. (of a liquid) Water white.
  • adj. Lacking in interest or variety.

drab

  • adj. Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour.
  • n. A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab colour.
  • n. The colour of this fabric; a dun, dull grey, or or dull brownish yellow.
  • n. A wooden box, used in saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
  • n. (dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
  • n. (dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
  • n. A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
  • v. (obsolete) To consort with prostitutes.

dry

  • adj. Free from or lacking moisture.
  • adj. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (Petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
  • adj. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
  • adj. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquid…
  • adj. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
  • adj. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
  • adj. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly.
  • adj. (sciences, somewhat pejorative) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
  • n. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
  • n. (especially Australia, with "the") The dry season.
  • n. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
  • v. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
  • v. (transitive) To remove moisture from.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.

get

  • v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  • v. (transitive) To receive.
  • v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
  • v. (copulative) To become.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
  • v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to do.
  • v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
  • v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  • v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
  • v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  • v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  • v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
  • v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  • v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  • v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
  • v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
  • v. (transitive) To getter.
  • v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
  • v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  • v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
  • v. (euphemistic) To kill.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • n. Offspring.
  • n. Lineage.
  • n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
  • n. Something gained.
  • n. (Britain, regional) A git.
  • n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

go

  • v. To move.
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  • v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
  • v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
  • v. (intransitive) To attend.
  • v. To proceed.
  • v. To follow or travel along (a path).
  • v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  • v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
  • v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  • v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
  • v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
  • v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
  • v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  • v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
  • v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  • v. To pass, to be used up.
  • v. (intransitive) To die.
  • v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
  • v. To break down or apart.
  • v. (intransitive) To be sold.
  • v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
  • v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
  • v. To say (something), to make a sound.
  • v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
  • v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
  • v. To apply or subject oneself to.
  • v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
  • v. (intransitive) To date.
  • v. To attack.
  • v. To be in general; to be usually.
  • v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  • v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
  • n. (uncommon) The act of going.
  • n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
  • n. An attempt, a try.
  • n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
  • n. An act; the working or operation.
  • n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
  • n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
  • n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
  • n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
  • n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
  • n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
  • n. A period of activity.
  • n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
  • n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

grave

  • n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
  • n. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
  • n. death, destruction.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it…
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice…
  • adj. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
  • adj. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
  • adj. Low in pitch, tone etc.
  • adj. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
  • n. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

sedate

  • adj. in a composed and temperate state.
  • v. to tranquilize by giving a sedative; to calm; to soothe; to induce sleep.

serious

  • adj. Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition; earnest; solemn.
  • adj. Important; weighty; not insignificant.
  • adj. Really intending what is said; in earnest; not jocular or deceiving.

solemn

  • adj. Deeply serious and somber.
  • adj. Somberly impressive.
  • adj. Performed with great ceremony.
  • adj. Sacred.
  • adj. Gloomy or sombre.

somber

  • adj. Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
  • adj. Dark, lacking color or brightness.
  • v. Alternative form of sombre.

sombre

  • adj. Dark; gloomy.
  • adj. Dull or dark in colour.
  • adj. Melancholy; dismal.
  • adj. Grave.
  • n. (obsolete) gloom; obscurity; duskiness.
  • v. To make sombre or dark; to make shady.

teetotal

  • adj. Abstinent from alcohol, never drinking alcohol.
  • adj. Opposed to the drinking of alcohol.
  • adj. Total.
  • n. One who abstains from drinking alcohol.

unintoxicated

  • adj. Not intoxicated; sober.

unplayful

  • adj. Not playful.

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