sedateadjective
uk/sɪˈdeɪt/us/səˈdeɪt/avoiding excitement or great activity and usually calm and relaxed:
The fight against a chemical storage site has transformed a normally sedate village into a battleground.
The speed limit is a sedate 55 mph.
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Calm and relaxed
- (as) cool as a cucumber idiom
- at (your) leisure idiom
- be at peace with the world idiom
- carefree
- careless
- comfort
- comfortably
- easy come, easy go idiom
- easy-going
- equilibrium
- free-flowing
- genteel
- harmonious
- lamb
- peaceful
- poised
- quiescent
- relaxed
- rested
- sangfroid
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sedately
adverb uk/sɪˈdeɪt.li/us/səˈdeɪt.li/
sedateverb [ T ]
uk/sɪˈdeɪt/us/səˈdeɪt/to cause a person or animal to be very calm or go to sleep by giving them a drug:
When I saw him after the accident he was still in shock and was heavily sedated.
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Calming and relaxing
- assuage
- balls-to-the-wall
- bask
- bread
- bread and circuses idiom
- calm
- chill
- humour
- lie down
- lighten sth up
- lighten up
- lull
- lull sb into sth
- relaxation
- settle
- simmer down
- slow down
- soften
- steady
- take/need a cold shower idiom
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