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adjective sɪˈdeɪtsəˈdeɪt 1Calm, dignified, and unhurried. 安静的；镇定沉着的；稳重的 in the old days, business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace 以前，生意做得比较稳重。 Example sentencesExamples - After the baptism of fire that was the Border, Christy found the pace of policing in Westport a little more sedate.
- Got the ticket and set out on the road again at a very sedate pace and being very careful with my driving.
- This does not reflect well on the sedate, calm and collected gentleman that I hallucinated myself to be.
- Thus far into the interview the pace has been sedate, almost jovial.
- As she drew near the room, Morgan slowed her pace to a much more sedate walk.
- Lucas followed behind at a more sedate pace, and neither looked happy.
- Entering the congestion of the pueblo, the Freeman slowed the team to a more sedate pace and studied her closely.
- The old rock-and-lava ball had built up a nice ozone shield under which life could evolve at a properly sedate pace.
- And I spent the last twenty minutes of the exam writing at a fairly sedate rate.
- Tullow Street may look calm and sedate most mid week days but come the weekends it is an entirely different place.
- Barnsley batted first and looked composed, if a little sedate, in reaching 25 off 14 tidy overs from Duncan Snell and Rob Flack.
- I followed it down at a more sedate pace to the jeers of my mates.
- I'd intended to be mature and sedate and demure and just wistfully watch the young guests from afar.
- Flitting between two worlds, constantly joining up and linking two experiences, this books travels at a sedate pace to its conclusion.
- Much like draining a bathtub, going down in a lock is fairly sedate.
- The book world is swayed by fads, too, though at much more sedate pace compared to the clothing business.
- There are a number of orchestras here which also remind us of those days when everything was calmer and more sedate.
- But how often does one see a youngster moving on a scooterette at a sedate pace, between 42 and 50 kmph?
- He followed her at a more sedate pace that was faster than it seemed.
- The Op. 71 and Op. 74 were composed in 1793 during a relatively sedate period in Vienna.
Synonyms calm, tranquil, placid, composed, serene, steady, unruffled, imperturbable, unflappable dignified, serious, serious-minded, formal, decorous, proper, prim, demure, sober, earnest, staid, stiff, stuffy, boring informal starchy, stick-in-the-mud slow, unhurried, relaxed, leisurely, unrushed, slow-moving, slow-going, slow and steady, easy, easy-going, gentle, comfortable, restful, undemanding, lazy, languid, languorous, plodding, dawdling, leisured, measured, steady informal laid-back - 1.1 Quiet and rather dull.
安静而沉闷的 sedate suburban domesticity 沉闷的郊区家庭生活。 Example sentencesExamples - The normally sedate hamlet now resembles the set of Robocop.
- Compared with the cricket, they were all rather sedate.
- Smith's case had brought unusual drama to the normally sedate high court.
- But all this makes it rather quieter, and more sedate, and a perfect place for stage two.
- Village cricket isn't the dull, sedate affair for which I had dismissed it.
- Organizer Richard MacKinnon admits that the crowd is still fairly sedate and lacks diversity.
- If you haven't figured it yet, this is an elegy to my city's once quiet, sedate, pleasant city roads, a haven for motorists.
- Boxing day has also been a relatively sedate affair (so far).
- I would wager that when our defence minister made fun of you, Elsie, he was wearing a boring black or blue suit and a sedate tie.
- I'm a member of the House of Lords, which is very much more sedate and dignified than the House of Commons.
- The world of biblical interpretation is a calm and sedate world.
- Being a sedate and sombre brunette could get boring eventually.
- I'm a bit sedate, perhaps staid in the eyes of others.
- In Britain, political activists have taken a rather more sedate approach.
- Others prefer a quieter, more sedate setting in Burras Lane or Birdcage Walk.
- For not having won a title since 1917, the celebration was relatively sedate.
- She looked out the front window at the street below them, which appeared deceptively quiet and sedate as a cart rolled by innocently.
- The neighborhood was sedate and quiet as all the inhabitants were at work.
- The company has gone for a rather sedate slate grey casing leaving brash corporate silver behind.
Derivativesadverb sɪˈdeɪtlisəˈdeɪtli I took a deep breath, turned on my turn-signal, made an easy right turn, and sedately left the neighborhood. Example sentencesExamples - I managed to do the dishes before I sedately walked to the bath.
- The cars drift sedately along for an hour and a half, passing through green tunnels of moss-clad trees and misty clouds.
- In Tbilisi, however, they do things somewhat more sedately.
- A line of loaded camels, walking sedately on a track of their own.
noun sɪˈdeɪtnəssəˈdeɪtnəs But earlier this year the sedateness was violently disturbed when a gas tanker was deliberately driven into the walls. Example sentencesExamples - My father sat on the edge of my bed, looking at me with perfect sedateness.
- Pan simply walks in with god-like sedateness, carrying her off on his shoulder.
- If they view the sedateness of the native culture with a skeptical eye, they can also be grateful for it.
- He has always impressed with the sedateness of his craft; invariably his films are like life in slow motion.
OriginLate Middle English (originally as a medical term meaning 'not sore or painful', also 'calm, tranquil'): from Latin sedatus, past participle of sedare 'settle', from sedere 'sit'. Rhymesabate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight verbsɪˈdeɪtsəˈdeɪt [with object]Calm (someone) or make them sleep by administering a sedative drug. 给…服镇静剂，用镇静剂使安睡 给她服用了大量镇静剂。 Example sentencesExamples - Patients with obstructive sleep apnea should avoid alcohol and other sedating agents.
- The researchers at first tried to deliver the gene therapy while the patients were sedated but awake.
- His lawyers also claimed that he was heavily sedated with antipsychotic drugs during his trial.
- The anesthesia care provider sedates the patient to achieve an appropriate monitored anesthesia care level.
- The person is sedated and should not eat or drink for a few hours before the procedure.
- Establish a baseline of sensorium and cognitive function before sedating the patient.
- She was heavily sedated but she couldn't even open her eyes for the first few days.
- I have no recollection of the actual event, or the following week during which I was heavily sedated.
- After the patient is properly sedated perform the orotracheal procedure.
- In fact, I now get requests to stop morphine because it is sedating the patient too much, even when the patient does have pain.
- She said her mother was heavily sedated as part of her treatment and needed to be tied into her chair to stop her falling.
- Combined with that, we give a combination of a valium-type drug and an intravenous anaesthetic agent to sedate you during the process.
- Once it catches your attention, television sedates you like a drug.
- Muscle relaxants such as cyclobenzaprine or diazepam work mostly by sedating patients and preventing activity.
- He was taken to the Great Western Hospital where he was sedated and treated for head injuries.
- The couple sat by the bedside of their heavily sedated son and explained to him what they were thinking of doing.
- I was treated very well in hospital, I was sedated that first night, and we basically went from there.
- The procedure generally involves sedating your child.
- If it is less traumatic for the patient, these activities are performed after the patient is sedated.
- The anesthesia care provider then further sedates the patient intravenously.
Synonyms tranquillize, give a sedative to, put under sedation, calm down, quieten, pacify, soothe, relax, dope, drug, administer drugs/narcotics/opiates to, knock out, anaesthetize stupefy
Origin1960s: back-formation from sedation. adjectivesəˈdeɪtsəˈdāt 1Calm, dignified, and unhurried. 安静的；镇定沉着的；稳重的 in the old days, business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace 以前，生意做得比较稳重。 Example sentencesExamples - The book world is swayed by fads, too, though at much more sedate pace compared to the clothing business.
- I'd intended to be mature and sedate and demure and just wistfully watch the young guests from afar.
- After the baptism of fire that was the Border, Christy found the pace of policing in Westport a little more sedate.
- Lucas followed behind at a more sedate pace, and neither looked happy.
- I followed it down at a more sedate pace to the jeers of my mates.
- Barnsley batted first and looked composed, if a little sedate, in reaching 25 off 14 tidy overs from Duncan Snell and Rob Flack.
- He followed her at a more sedate pace that was faster than it seemed.
- Flitting between two worlds, constantly joining up and linking two experiences, this books travels at a sedate pace to its conclusion.
- Much like draining a bathtub, going down in a lock is fairly sedate.
- Got the ticket and set out on the road again at a very sedate pace and being very careful with my driving.
- Tullow Street may look calm and sedate most mid week days but come the weekends it is an entirely different place.
- Entering the congestion of the pueblo, the Freeman slowed the team to a more sedate pace and studied her closely.
- The old rock-and-lava ball had built up a nice ozone shield under which life could evolve at a properly sedate pace.
- The Op. 71 and Op. 74 were composed in 1793 during a relatively sedate period in Vienna.
- There are a number of orchestras here which also remind us of those days when everything was calmer and more sedate.
- And I spent the last twenty minutes of the exam writing at a fairly sedate rate.
- As she drew near the room, Morgan slowed her pace to a much more sedate walk.
- Thus far into the interview the pace has been sedate, almost jovial.
- But how often does one see a youngster moving on a scooterette at a sedate pace, between 42 and 50 kmph?
- This does not reflect well on the sedate, calm and collected gentleman that I hallucinated myself to be.
Synonyms calm, tranquil, placid, composed, serene, steady, unruffled, imperturbable, unflappable slow, unhurried, relaxed, leisurely, unrushed, slow-moving, slow-going, slow and steady, easy, easy-going, gentle, comfortable, restful, undemanding, lazy, languid, languorous, plodding, dawdling, leisured, measured, steady - 1.1 Quiet and rather dull.
安静而沉闷的 sedate suburban domesticity 沉闷的郊区家庭生活。 Example sentencesExamples - Village cricket isn't the dull, sedate affair for which I had dismissed it.
- In Britain, political activists have taken a rather more sedate approach.
- She looked out the front window at the street below them, which appeared deceptively quiet and sedate as a cart rolled by innocently.
- The normally sedate hamlet now resembles the set of Robocop.
- Being a sedate and sombre brunette could get boring eventually.
- The world of biblical interpretation is a calm and sedate world.
- I'm a member of the House of Lords, which is very much more sedate and dignified than the House of Commons.
- Organizer Richard MacKinnon admits that the crowd is still fairly sedate and lacks diversity.
- For not having won a title since 1917, the celebration was relatively sedate.
- But all this makes it rather quieter, and more sedate, and a perfect place for stage two.
- Smith's case had brought unusual drama to the normally sedate high court.
- I'm a bit sedate, perhaps staid in the eyes of others.
- The company has gone for a rather sedate slate grey casing leaving brash corporate silver behind.
- Boxing day has also been a relatively sedate affair (so far).
- The neighborhood was sedate and quiet as all the inhabitants were at work.
- Compared with the cricket, they were all rather sedate.
- Others prefer a quieter, more sedate setting in Burras Lane or Birdcage Walk.
- If you haven't figured it yet, this is an elegy to my city's once quiet, sedate, pleasant city roads, a haven for motorists.
- I would wager that when our defence minister made fun of you, Elsie, he was wearing a boring black or blue suit and a sedate tie.
OriginLate Middle English (originally as a medical term meaning ‘not sore or painful’, also ‘calm, tranquil’): from Latin sedatus, past participle of sedare ‘settle’, from sedere ‘sit’. verbsəˈdātsəˈdeɪt [with object]Calm (someone) or make them sleep by administering a sedative drug. 给…服镇静剂，用镇静剂使安睡 给她服用了大量镇静剂。 Example sentencesExamples - Patients with obstructive sleep apnea should avoid alcohol and other sedating agents.
- The anesthesia care provider sedates the patient to achieve an appropriate monitored anesthesia care level.
- The researchers at first tried to deliver the gene therapy while the patients were sedated but awake.
- After the patient is properly sedated perform the orotracheal procedure.
- She was heavily sedated but she couldn't even open her eyes for the first few days.
- I have no recollection of the actual event, or the following week during which I was heavily sedated.
- The couple sat by the bedside of their heavily sedated son and explained to him what they were thinking of doing.
- The procedure generally involves sedating your child.
- Once it catches your attention, television sedates you like a drug.
- Establish a baseline of sensorium and cognitive function before sedating the patient.
- If it is less traumatic for the patient, these activities are performed after the patient is sedated.
- She said her mother was heavily sedated as part of her treatment and needed to be tied into her chair to stop her falling.
- His lawyers also claimed that he was heavily sedated with antipsychotic drugs during his trial.
- Combined with that, we give a combination of a valium-type drug and an intravenous anaesthetic agent to sedate you during the process.
- He was taken to the Great Western Hospital where he was sedated and treated for head injuries.
- Muscle relaxants such as cyclobenzaprine or diazepam work mostly by sedating patients and preventing activity.
- In fact, I now get requests to stop morphine because it is sedating the patient too much, even when the patient does have pain.
- The person is sedated and should not eat or drink for a few hours before the procedure.
- I was treated very well in hospital, I was sedated that first night, and we basically went from there.
- The anesthesia care provider then further sedates the patient intravenously.
Synonyms tranquillize, give a sedative to, put under sedation, calm down, quieten, pacify, soothe, relax, dope, drug, administer drugs to, administer narcotics to, administer opiates to, knock out, anaesthetize
Origin1960s: back-formation from sedation. |