transcription, транскрипция: [ soʊbə(r) ]
( sobers, sobering, sobered)
1.
When you are sober , you are not drunk.
When Dad was sober he was a good father.
ADJ : usu v-link ADJ
2.
A sober person is serious and thoughtful.
We are now far more sober and realistic...
The euphoria is giving way to a more sober assessment of the situation.
ADJ
• so‧ber‧ly
‘There’s a new development,’ he said soberly.
ADV : usu ADV with v
3.
Sober colours and clothes are plain and rather dull.
He dresses in sober grey suits.
...sober-suited middle-aged men.
= sombre
ADJ
• so‧ber‧ly
She saw Ellis, soberly dressed in a well-cut dark suit.
ADV : ADV with v
4.
see also sobering
5.
stone-cold sober: see stone-cold