sedate

1. 1.

   cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to

   “The patient must be sedated before the operation”

   Synonymscalmtranquilizetranquillizetranquillise

   Antonymsstimulate

   Broaderaffect

   Narrowerhypnotize

Other forms of sedate

past tense

sedated·

present participle

sedating·

third person

sedates·

comparative

sedater·

superlative

sedatest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sedate

What does sedate mean?

sedate means "characterized by dignity and propriety". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sedate?

sedate has 2 syllables: se-date. The stress falls on "date". In IPA it is /sɪˈdeɪt/.

What is another word for sedate?

Close synonyms include staid, grave, sober, solemn, calm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of sedate?

The recorded antonyms are stimulate.

Is sedate a common word?

sedate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sedate?

14 words rhyme with sedate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.