Definitions for Sobers

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Sobers so·ber

Spelling: [soh-ber]

IPA: /ˈsoʊ bər/

Sobers is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in Sobers (beorss).

Definitions for Sobers

adjective

1. not intoxicated or drunk.
2. habitually temperate, especially in the use of liquor.
3. quiet or sedate in demeanor, as persons.
4. marked by seriousness, gravity, solemnity, etc., as of demeanor, speech, etc.:
5. subdued in tone, as color; not colorful or showy, as clothes.
6. free from excess, extravagance, or exaggeration:
7. showing self-control:
8. sane or rational:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make or become sober: (often followed by up).

Origin of Sobers

1300-50; Middle English sobre Old French Latin sōbrius

Examples for Sobers

This fever will cure him, they say it sobers like bloodletting.

You know what he'll do—and when he sobers up, it may be too late.

It sobers the fellow, for the weight on his nose and the pulling on it hurts dreadfully, and often makes him squeal.

We'll beat it right off, an' I hope to gosh Joe sobers up on the way!

This sobers me, and I promise seriously and faithfully to hold my tongue.

Liz hides in a closet and then locks Burton in a cabin until he sobers up.

If he ever sobers up in this world, I'll give him a long piece of my mind.

They often come for a warm soda in the morning, it sobers them.

I can hardly believe it, but we'll see what can be got from the man when he sobers up.

We have our sobers and our drunks, our Hardy and our Belloc, and Chesterton.