vverb.changecause to become soberHypernyms:alter change modify
Inherited Hypernyms:soberchange
Sentence Frame:Something ---s somebody | Something ---s something | The performance is likely to --- Sue (apply to: sober) | The bad news will --- him (apply to: sober)
vverb.changebecome more realisticSynset:sober up
Examples:- After thinking about the potential consequences of his plan, he sobered up
Hypernyms:become get go
Inherited Hypernyms:sober upbecomechange statechange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s
vverb.changebecome sober after excessive alcohol consumptionSynset:sober up
Examples:- Keep him in bed until he sobers up
Hypernyms:become get go
Inherited Hypernyms:sober upbecomechange statechange
Entailment:booze drink fuddle hit the bottle
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s
adjadj.allnot affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)Antonyms:intoxicated
Derivationally Related Form:soberness
Inherited Hypernyms:sober
Similar to:cold sober stone-sober drug-free dry teetotal uninebriated unintoxicated
adj satadj.alldignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promisesSynset:grave sedate solemn
Examples:- 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
Antonyms:frivolous
Derivationally Related Form:solemnitysedatenessgravenessgravitysobernesssolemness
Inherited Hypernyms:grave
Similar to:serious
adj satadj.alllacking brightness or color; dullSynset:drab somber sombre
Examples:- drab faded curtains
- sober Puritan grey
- children in somber brown clothes
Antonyms:colorful
Derivationally Related Form:sombernesssombreness
Inherited Hypernyms:drab
Similar to:colorless colourless
adjadj.allcompletely lacking in playfulnessAttributes:fun playfulness
Synset:serious unplayful
Antonyms:playful
Derivationally Related Form:seriousnesssoberness
Inherited Hypernyms:unplayful