英语词汇“sedate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

sedate1

/sɪˈdeɪt

adjective

1Calm, dignified, and unhurried: in the old days, business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace...

Tullow Street may look calm and sedate most mid week days but come the weekends it is an entirely different place.
This does not reflect well on the sedate, calm and collected gentleman that I hallucinated myself to be.
The old rock-and-lava ball had built up a nice ozone shield under which life could evolve at a properly sedate pace.

Synonyms

calm, tranquil, placid, composed, serene, steady, unruffled, imperturbable, unflappable;

dignified, serious, serious-minded, formal, decorous, proper, prim, demure, sober, earnest, staid, stiff, stuffy, boring

informal starchy, stick-in-the-mud

slow, unhurried, relaxed, leisurely, unrushed, slow-moving, slow-going, slow and steady, easy, easy-going, gentle, comfortable, restful, undemanding, lazy, languid, languorous, plodding, dawdling, leisured, measured, steady

informal laid-back

1.1Quiet and rather dull: sedate suburban domesticity...

But all this makes it rather quieter, and more sedate, and a perfect place for stage two.
She looked out the front window at the street below them, which appeared deceptively quiet and sedate as a cart rolled by innocently.
If you haven't figured it yet, this is an elegy to my city's once quiet, sedate, pleasant city roads, a haven for motorists.

Derivatives

sedately

/sɪˈdeɪtli

/ adverb ...

I managed to do the dishes before I sedately walked to the bath.
In Tbilisi, however, they do things somewhat more sedately.
I took a deep breath, turned on my turn-signal, made an easy right turn, and sedately left the neighborhood.

sedateness

/sɪˈdeɪtnəs/ noun ...

He has always impressed with the sedateness of his craft; invariably his films are like life in slow motion.
But earlier this year the sedateness was violently disturbed when a gas tanker was deliberately driven into the walls.
If they view the sedateness of the native culture with a skeptical eye, they can also be grateful for it.

Origin

Late Middle English (originally as a medical term meaning 'not sore or painful', also 'calm, tranquil'): from Latin sedatus, past participle of sedare 'settle', from sedere 'sit'.

Rhymes

sedate2

/sɪˈdeɪt

verb [with object]

Calm (someone) or make them sleep by administering a sedative drug: she was heavily sedated...

His lawyers also claimed that he was heavily sedated with antipsychotic drugs during his trial.
The anesthesia care provider then further sedates the patient intravenously.
I have no recollection of the actual event, or the following week during which I was heavily sedated.

Synonyms

tranquillize, give a sedative to, put under sedation, calm down, quieten, pacify, soothe, relax, dope, drug, administer drugs/narcotics/opiates to, knock out, anaesthetize;

stupefy

Origin

1960s: back-formation from sedation.

单词	sedate
释义	sedate1 /sɪˈdeɪt / adjective 1Calm, dignified, and unhurried: in the old days, business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace... Tullow Street may look calm and sedate most mid week days but come the weekends it is an entirely different place. This does not reflect well on the sedate, calm and collected gentleman that I hallucinated myself to be. The old rock-and-lava ball had built up a nice ozone shield under which life could evolve at a properly sedate pace. Synonyms calm, tranquil, placid, composed, serene, steady, unruffled, imperturbable, unflappable; dignified, serious, serious-minded, formal, decorous, proper, prim, demure, sober, earnest, staid, stiff, stuffy, boring informal starchy, stick-in-the-mud slow, unhurried, relaxed, leisurely, unrushed, slow-moving, slow-going, slow and steady, easy, easy-going, gentle, comfortable, restful, undemanding, lazy, languid, languorous, plodding, dawdling, leisured, measured, steady informal laid-back 1.1Quiet and rather dull: sedate suburban domesticity... But all this makes it rather quieter, and more sedate, and a perfect place for stage two. She looked out the front window at the street below them, which appeared deceptively quiet and sedate as a cart rolled by innocently. If you haven't figured it yet, this is an elegy to my city's once quiet, sedate, pleasant city roads, a haven for motorists. Derivatives sedately /sɪˈdeɪtli / adverb ... I managed to do the dishes before I sedately walked to the bath. In Tbilisi, however, they do things somewhat more sedately. I took a deep breath, turned on my turn-signal, made an easy right turn, and sedately left the neighborhood. sedateness /sɪˈdeɪtnəs/ noun ... He has always impressed with the sedateness of his craft; invariably his films are like life in slow motion. But earlier this year the sedateness was violently disturbed when a gas tanker was deliberately driven into the walls. If they view the sedateness of the native culture with a skeptical eye, they can also be grateful for it. Origin Late Middle English (originally as a medical term meaning 'not sore or painful', also 'calm, tranquil'): from Latin sedatus, past participle of sedare 'settle', from sedere 'sit'. Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight sedate2 /sɪˈdeɪt / verb [with object] Calm (someone) or make them sleep by administering a sedative drug: she was heavily sedated... His lawyers also claimed that he was heavily sedated with antipsychotic drugs during his trial. The anesthesia care provider then further sedates the patient intravenously. I have no recollection of the actual event, or the following week during which I was heavily sedated. Synonyms tranquillize, give a sedative to, put under sedation, calm down, quieten, pacify, soothe, relax, dope, drug, administer drugs/narcotics/opiates to, knock out, anaesthetize; stupefy Origin 1960s: back-formation from sedation.
随便看	take something forward take something ill take something in take something in good part take something in hand take something in one's stride (also take something in stride) take something into account (or take account of) take something kindly take something lying down take something off take something on take something on board take something out take something out on take something over take something personally take something to heart take something to the next level take something under advisement take something up take something with a pinch (or grain) of salt take stock take that! take the air take the biscuit (or take the cake)