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| Main Entry: |
sober
[soh-ber]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not partaking of alcohol |
| Synonyms: | abstaining, abstemious, abstinent, ascetic, calm, clear-headed, cold sober, continent, controlled, dry, moderate, nonindulgent, not drunk, on the wagon, restrained, sedate, self-possessed, serious, steady, temperate, took the pledge |
| Antonyms: | drunk, inebriated |
| Main Entry: | abstemious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restraining behavior or appetite |
| Synonyms: | abstinent, ascetic, austere, continent, frugal, moderate, moderating, restrained, self-denying, self-restrained, sober, sparing, temperate |
| Antonyms: | gluttonous, greedy, hungry |
| Main Entry: | austere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe in manner |
| Synonyms: | ascetic, astringent, cold, earnest, exacting, forbidding, formal, grave, grim, hard, harsh, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, rigid, rigorous, serious, sober, solemn, somber, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, unfeeling, unrelenting |
| Antonyms: | bland, calm, gentle, meek, mild |
| Main Entry: | austere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | refraining; abstinent |
| Synonyms: | abstemious, ascetic, chaste, continent, economical, puritanical, self-denying, self-disciplined, sober, straightlaced, strict, subdued, unrelenting |
| Antonyms: | elaborate, encouraging, extravagant, indulgent, spending |
| Main Entry: | careful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious; painstaking |
| Synonyms: | accurate, alert, apprehensive, assiduous, attentive, chary, choosy, circumspect, concerned, conscientious, conservative, cool, deliberate, discreet, exacting, fastidious, finicky, fussy, going to great lengths, guarded, heedful, judicious, leery, meticulous, mindful, observant, particular, playing safe, precise, prim, protective, provident, prudent, punctilious, regardful, religious, rigorous, scrupulous, selfdisciplined, shy, sober, solicitous, solid, thorough, thoughtful, vigilant, wary |
| Antonyms: | careless, inattentive, incautious, thoughtless, uncareful, unconcerned, unscrupulous |
| Main Entry: | conservative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious, moderate, tending to preserve the status quo |
| Synonyms: | Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, right, right of center, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalistic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread |
| Antonyms: | exaggerated, incautious, left-wing, liberal, progressive, radical |
| Main Entry: | continent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chaste, pure |
| Synonyms: | abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, austere, bridled, celibate, curbed, inhibited, modest, restrained, self-restrained, sober, temperate |
| Antonyms: | impure, incontinent, unchaste |
| Main Entry: | conventional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unoriginal |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, in rut, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight |
| Antonyms: | different, exotic, foreign, new, original, strange, unique |
| Main Entry: | demure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reserved, affected |
| Synonyms: | backward, bashful, blushing, close, coy, decorous, diffident, earnest, humble, modest, nice, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, reticent, retiring, sedate, serious, shy, silent, skittish, sober, solemn, staid, strait-laced, timid, unassertive, unassuming, unassured |
| Notes: | demur is the verb 'to object or voice opposition' while demure is the adjective meaning 'modest, shy' |
| Antonyms: | aggressive, bold, extroverted, outgoing, shameless, strong |
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