Definitions for sober
ˈsoʊ bərsober

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. soberadjective

   not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

2. grave, sedate, sober, solemnadjective

   dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

   "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"

3. drab, sober, somber, sombreadjective

   lacking brightness or color; dull

   "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"

4. unplayful, serious, soberverb

   completely lacking in playfulness

5. soberverb

   cause to become sober

   "A sobering thought"

6. sober up, soberverb

   become more realistic

   "After thinking about the potential consequences of his plan, he sobered up"

7. sober up, soberverb

   become sober after excessive alcohol consumption

   "Keep him in bed until he sobers up"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. soberverb

   (often with up) To make or become sober.

2. soberverb

   (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.

   It took him hours to sober up.

3. soberadjective

   not drunk; not intoxicated

4. soberadjective

   not given to excessive drinking of alcohol;

5. soberadjective

   in character; moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled

6. soberadjective

   dull; not bright or colorful;

7. Etymology: From sobre, from sobrius, from se- + ebrius, of unknown origin.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Soberadjective

   Etymology: sobrius, Latin; sobre, French.

   1. Temperate, particularly in liquours; not drunken.

   Live a sober, righteous, and godly life. Common Prayer.

   The vines give wine to the drunkard as well as to the sober man. Jeremy Taylor, Worthy Communicant.

   No sober temperate person, whatsoever other sins he may be guilty of, can look with complacency upon the drunkenness and sottishness of his neighbour. Robert South, Sermons.

   2. Not overpowered by drink.

   A law there is among the Grecians, whereof Pittacus is author; that he which being overcome with drink did then strike any man, should sufler punishment double, as much as if he had done the same being sober. Richard Hooker.

   3. Not mad; right in the understanding.

   Another, who had a great genius for tragedy, following the fury of his natural temper, made every man and woman in his plays stark raging mad: there was not a sober person to be had; all was tempestuous and blustering. Dryden.

   No sober man would put himself into danger, for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck. Dryden.

   4. Regular; calm; free from inordinate passion.

   This same young sober blooded boy a man cannot make him laugh. William Shakespeare.

   Cieca travelled all over Peru, and is a grave and sober writer. George Abbot, Description of the World.

   Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. Tit. ii. 6.

   The governour of Scotland being of great courage, and sober judgment, amply performed his duty both before the battle and in the field. John Hayward.

   These confusions disposed men of any sober understanding to wish for peace. Edward Hyde.

   Among them some sober men confessed, that as his majesty’s affairs then stood, he could not grant it. Edward Hyde.

   To these, that sober race of men, whose lives
   Religious, titled them the sons of God,
   Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame
   Ignobly to the trains and to the smiles
   Of these fair atheists. John Milton.

   5. Serious; solemn; grave.

   Petruchio shall
   Offer me, disguis’d in sober robes,
   To old Baptista as a schoolmaster. William Shakespeare.

   Come, civil night,
   Thou sober-suited matron, all in black. William Shakespeare.

   Twilight grey
   Had in her sober liv’ry all things clad. John Milton.

   What parts gay France from sober Spain,
   A little rising rocky chain:
   Of men born south or north th’ hill,
   Those seldom move; these ne’er stand still. Matthew Prior.

   Swift and he despis’d the farce of state,
   The sober follies of the wise and great. Alexander Pope.

   See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby. Alexander Pope.

2. To Soberverb

   To make sober.

   Etymology: from the adjective.

   A little learning is a dang’rous thing;
   Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
   There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
   And drinking largely sobers us again. Alexander Pope.

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1. SOBER

   In cryptography, SOBER is a family of stream ciphers initially designed by Greg Rose of QUALCOMM Australia starting in 1997. The name is a contrived acronym for Seventeen Octet Byte Enabled Register. Initially the cipher was intended as a replacement for broken ciphers in cellular telephony. The ciphers evolved, and other developers (primarily Phillip Hawkes) joined the project. SOBER was the first cipher, with a 17-byte linear-feedback shift register (LFSR), a form of decimation called stuttering, and a nonlinear output filter function. The particular configuration of the shift register turned out to be vulnerable to "guess and determine" attacks. SOBER-2 changed the position of the feedback and output taps to resist the above attacks. S16 was an expansion to 16-bit words rather than bytes, with an expected increase of security.

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1. sober

   Sober generally refers to the state of not being intoxicated or affected by the use of alcohol or drugs. It can also describe a person who is serious, sensible and solemn. Additionally, in the context of colors or clothing, it can mean subtle or understated.

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1. Sober

   temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man

2. Sober

   not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober

3. Sober

   not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed

4. Sober

   not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses

5. Sober

   serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate

6. Soberverb

   to make sober

7. Soberverb

   to become sober; -- often with down

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1. Šober

   Šober is a dispersed settlement in the hills northwest of Maribor in northeastern Slovenia. It belongs to the Maribor Urban Municipality. The local church, built on a hill above the settlement, is a landmark visible from afar. It is dedicated to Saint Urban and was built in the 16th century. Between 1784 and 1855 it was abandoned, and was then restored in 1860.

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1. Sober

   sō′bėr, adj. not wild or passionate: self-possessed: sedate: grave: calm: regular: simple in colour, sombre: not drunk: temperate, esp. in the use of liquors: (Scot.) poor, feeble.—v.t. to make sober: to free from intoxication.—adj. Sō′ber-blood′ed, cool.—v.t. Sō′berise, to make sober.—adv. Sō′berly.—adj. Sō′ber-mind′ed, habitually calm and temperate.—ns. Sō′ber-mind′edness, the state of being sober-minded: freedom from inordinate passion: calmness; Sō′berness; Sō′bersides, a sedate and solemn person.—adj. Sō′ber-suit′ed, dressed in a suit of sad-coloured clothes.—n. Sōbrī′ety, state or habit of being sober: calmness: gravity. [Fr. sobre—L. sobrius—se, apart, not, ebrius, drunk.]

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1. sober

   1. To be bored, unhappy, "all in." 2. To be born or live in Philadelphia. 3. To be without money, to be destitute. 4. To die. _E. g._, "Thank God, I am sober at last!" Dying words of Potodorus in _Two Gentlemen of Yonkers_.

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1. sober

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1. SOBER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sober is ranked #23065 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Sober surname appeared 1,108 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sober.
   
   91.7% or 1,016 total occurrences were White.
   2.9% or 33 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.2% or 25 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.7% or 19 total occurrences were Black.
   0.7% or 8 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.6% or 7 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Anagrams for sober »

1. Boers

2. bores

3. Brose

4. brose

5. robes

6. boser

How to pronounce sober?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sober in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sober in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of sober in a Sentence

1. Rob Lowe:

   I’ve been sober for 30 years. When I first got sober, I thought, my life is sober. My fun is done, and I’m not going to be cool anymore.

2. R. W. Plagge:

   Money mad. My wife says I spend money like a drunken sailor. Wonder what she'd say if I spent it like a sober congressman

3. Ernest Hemingway:

   Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

4. George Bernard Shaw:

   Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

5. G. K. Chesterton:

   My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.

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