The meaning of SEDATE is keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled. How to use sedate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Sedate.

SEDATE definition: 1. avoiding excitement or great activity and usually calm and relaxed: 2. to cause a person or…. Learn more.

If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull. She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins. Her …

SEDATE definition: calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement. See examples of sedate used in a sentence.

sedate (sɪˈdeɪt) adj 1. habitually calm and composed in manner; serene 2. staid, sober, or decorous

Definition of sedate adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

4 days ago · A reel or fling of some sort was in progress; and the usually sedate Farfrae was in the midst of the other dancers in the costume of a wild Highlander, flinging himself about and …

Sedate means to be calm, but if a doctor sedates you it means you've been administered a tranquilizing drug. Most surgeries require some form of sedation, but to be sedate in day-to …

He remained sedate under pressure. The doctor sedated the patient heavily. The patient had to be sedated. The animal was heavily sedated during the procedure.

se•date (si dāt′), adj., v., -dat•ed, -dat•ing. adj. calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement: a sedate party; a sedate horse. v.t. Medicine to put (a person) under sedation.