say it: SOH-bur-ing
sobering is an adjective meaning "tending to make sober or more serious". It is pronounced /ˈsoʊbɚɪŋ/ — SOH-bur-ing. It carries one recorded sense.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sobering come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.