Sedate means to be calm, but if a doctor sedates you it means you've been administered a tranquilizing drug. Most surgeries require some form of sedation, but to be sedate in day to day life means composed, quiet, and serene. Not necessarily unconscious.
Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid;
Verb
cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation"
Adjective S.
characterized by dignity and propriety
Adjective S.
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"
a.
Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene;
not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or
temper.
Sedate
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
Whatsoever we feel and know Too sedate for outward show.
Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid;
Usage Examples
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