sobersided

1. 1.

   completely lacking in humor or lightness of touch

   “choreography that was sobersided and sententious”

   “a play with a sobersided social message”

   Similarhumorless

Questions about sobersided

What does sobersided mean?

sobersided means "completely lacking in humor or lightness of touch".

How many syllables are in sobersided?

sobersided has 4 syllables and divides as so-ber-si-ded under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is sobersided a common word?

sobersided is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.