stone-sober

1. 1.

   totally sober

   Synonymscold sober

   Similarsober

Questions about stone-sober

What does stone-sober mean?

stone-sober means "totally sober".

How many syllables are in stone-sober?

stone-sober has 4 syllables: sto-ne--so-ber. The stress falls on "ne-".

What is another word for stone-sober?

Close synonyms include cold sober. 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.

Is stone-sober a common word?

stone-sober 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.