Definitions for sedate

sedate se·date

Spelling: [si-deyt]
IPA: /sɪˈdeɪt/

Sedate is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in sedate (adeest).

Definitions for sedate

adjective

  1. calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement:

verb (used with object)

  1. to put (a person) under sedation.

Origin of sedate

1640-50; Latin sēdātus (past participle of sēdāre to allay, quieten); akin to sedēre to sit1

Examples for sedate

Grave and sedate, as if knowing the sorrowful thoughts of his master.

Where Citrus County felt like a coiled spring, the pace of A Million Heavens is sedate, diffused among a dozen or so characters.

The one servant of the house waited at table, prim, sedate, formal.

I had been told that the English were cold and sedate: I found them charming and full of humour.

They are introduced; they call each other “Mr.” and “Miss”; they dance a sedate foxtrot.

It is unclear how Trierweiler came to the conclusion that the Élysée had allegedly been ordering the doctors to sedate her.

I don't quite understand how a city can be so sedate and frenetic at the same time, but somehow Los Angeles manages it.

He boasted of doing so much drugs that he had enough “running through my circulatory system to sedate Guatemala.”

We grew sedate; sedate were the brows of the few strangers we met.

I love to hear you talk, when you are so sedate as you seem now to be.

Word Value for sedate
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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