What are some opposite words for sober?
Antonyms for sober
ˈsoʊ bərsober
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term sober.
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
sober
Antonyms:
intemperate, drunk, intoxicated, heated, excited, impassioned, unreasonable, agitated, furious, passionate, extravagant, extreme, exorbitant, immoderate, flighty, erratic, eccentricSynonyms:
temperate, unintoxicated, cool, dispassionate, reasonable, culm, self-possessed, sound, unexcited, serious, grave, sedate, steady, abstemious, moderate
Princeton's WordNet
soberadjective
not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
Antonyms:
frivolous, sottish, colorful, orgiastic, hopped-up, colourful, potty, mellow, soused, pissed, tipsy, bibulous, stiff, wet, sloshed, inebriated, stoned, blotto, drunk, soaked, narcotized, bacchanalian, beery, pixilated, crocked, sozzled, loaded, besotted, bacchic, drugged, intoxicated, bacchanal, carousing, slopped, cockeyed, fuddled, drunken, smashed, boozy, plastered, tight, tiddly, squiffy, blind drunk, half-seas-over, pie-eyed, high, doped, narcotisedSynonyms:
serious, sombre, drab, grave, sedate, unplayful, somber, solemngrave, sedate, sober, solemnadjective
dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
"a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
Antonyms:
tipsy, drugged, drunken, bacchic, sloshed, colorful, slopped, squiffy, orgiastic, fuddled, pissed, hopped-up, pie-eyed, blotto, intoxicated, doped, carousing, cockeyed, sottish, plastered, mellow, bacchanal, blind drunk, frivolous, pixilated, bibulous, wet, soaked, beery, crocked, stoned, stiff, boozy, bacchanalian, tight, soused, half-seas-over, colourful, smashed, potty, narcotized, inebriated, loaded, besotted, drunk, high, narcotised, tiddly, sozzledSynonyms:
severe, serious, somber, earnest, sincere, dangerous, staid, unplayful, weighty, grave, grievous, drab, sedate, life-threatening, solemn, heavy, sombredrab, sober, somber, sombreadjective
lacking brightness or color; dull
"drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
Antonyms:
mellow, sottish, slopped, colourful, potty, boozy, blotto, besotted, soused, wet, loaded, pissed, hopped-up, carousing, high, drunk, orgiastic, sozzled, drugged, bibulous, intoxicated, pixilated, inebriated, stiff, colorful, tipsy, half-seas-over, bacchic, fuddled, narcotized, beery, tight, sloshed, cockeyed, stoned, plastered, doped, squiffy, frivolous, tiddly, blind drunk, drunken, pie-eyed, bacchanalian, crocked, narcotised, soaked, smashed, bacchanalSynonyms:
serious, melancholy, somber, dingy, drear, grim, gloomy, dismal, blue, dark, grave, drab, olive-drab, sedate, disconsolate, dreary, unplayful, solemn, sorry, sombreunplayful, serious, soberverb
completely lacking in playfulness
Antonyms:
sloshed, hopped-up, frivolous, inebriated, wet, crocked, loaded, beery, slopped, doped, soaked, half-seas-over, mellow, potty, bacchic, colourful, narcotised, pie-eyed, plastered, tiddly, tight, cockeyed, stiff, soused, fuddled, bacchanal, blotto, squiffy, blind drunk, pixilated, narcotized, bibulous, drugged, pissed, drunken, bacchanalian, tipsy, drunk, besotted, carousing, smashed, sottish, sozzled, high, boozy, stoned, intoxicated, orgiastic, colorfulSynonyms:
serious, severe, sombre, drab, grave, good, sedate, unplayful, life-threatening, somber, dangerous, grievous, solemnsoberverb
cause to become sober
"A sobering thought"
Antonyms:
bacchanal, sozzled, drugged, beery, narcotised, drunken, carousing, crocked, inebriated, loaded, squiffy, boozy, stiff, pixilated, mellow, blind drunk, bacchanalian, slopped, high, colourful, orgiastic, smashed, tiddly, potty, blotto, fuddled, bacchic, half-seas-over, doped, soused, pie-eyed, sottish, soaked, plastered, besotted, bibulous, stoned, wet, narcotized, frivolous, drunk, tight, intoxicated, colorful, pissed, cockeyed, sloshed, hopped-up, tipsySynonyms:
sober upsober up, soberverb
become more realistic
"After thinking about the potential consequences of his plan, he sobered up"
Antonyms:
slopped, inebriated, potty, sloshed, squiffy, plastered, besotted, stoned, bacchanal, high, wet, loaded, doped, crocked, blotto, cockeyed, pissed, stiff, tight, smashed, narcotized, drugged, tiddly, mellow, boozy, bacchanalian, half-seas-over, beery, colourful, fuddled, orgiastic, hopped-up, drunk, soaked, tipsy, pie-eyed, blind drunk, narcotised, sozzled, frivolous, carousing, drunken, soused, bacchic, intoxicated, bibulous, sottish, pixilated, colorfulSynonyms:
sober upsober up, soberverb
become sober after excessive alcohol consumption
"Keep him in bed until he sobers up"
Antonyms:
tiddly, narcotized, sloshed, soaked, pissed, besotted, plastered, colourful, hopped-up, squiffy, sottish, colorful, intoxicated, tipsy, pie-eyed, sozzled, bibulous, crocked, stiff, carousing, fuddled, drunken, soused, drugged, stoned, blotto, narcotised, loaded, boozy, half-seas-over, slopped, drunk, bacchic, inebriated, bacchanal, frivolous, smashed, mellow, high, pixilated, cockeyed, tight, potty, bacchanalian, orgiastic, blind drunk, doped, wet, beerySynonyms:
sober up
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
soberadjective
Synonyms:
temperate, abstinent, abstemious, unintoxicated, solemn, grave, demure, sedate, dispassionate, unimpassioned, calm, rational
How to use sober in a sentence?
I got sober because of this guy, every day has been happier ever since.
Fears that fighting in Iraq and Yemen could hamper the oil supply have clearly given way to a more sober appraisal, such concerns are exaggerated. In actual fact, the oil supply from the region has continued to grow.
I wanted to wear this Confederate flag dress as a middle finger to a symbol of racism, 3 Years Sober.
Drunk and hungry, we decided that if we had a shop, it must sell chocolate so that we had access to chocolate 24 hours a day. Stone-cold sober, we still liked Cadbury Creme Egg. And we still liked the name.
I was going to the airport and I had a Sprite bottle just filled with vodka and it was just 9 in the morning and I was throwing up in the car and this was just to get on a plane to go back to L.A. to the sober living house that I was staying at, i had all the help in the world, but I didn't want it.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#164 | high | |
#2685 | extreme | |
#3208 | wet | |
#3986 | tight | |
#4886 | loaded | |
#5952 | drunk | |
#6352 | excited | |
#9255 | heated | |
#10207 | colorful | |
#12021 | passionate | |
#12588 | stiff | |
#16024 | unreasonable | |
#16282 | pissed | |
#16835 | furious | |
#17264 | drunken | |
#19532 | sober | |
#20285 | colourful | |
#21291 | soaked | |
#21700 | potty | |
#22085 | eccentric | |
#23200 | mellow | |
#26251 | smashed | |
#28403 | stoned | |
#30043 | intoxicated | |
#30439 | frivolous | |
#31949 | erratic | |
#33980 | doped | |
#34015 | extravagant | |
#37078 | agitated | |
#46895 | drugged | |
#50305 | plastered | |
#51613 | impassioned | |
#55395 | tipsy | |
#55433 | exorbitant | |
#94144 | inebriated | |
#105585 | beery | |
#120271 | boozy | |
#124538 | flighty | |
#127101 | intemperate | |
#147412 | besotted | |
#149523 | cockeyed | |
#173612 | sloshed | |
#175143 | bacchanal | |
#175390 | carousing | |
#177689 | immoderate | |
#185080 | orgiastic | |
#193776 | blotto | |
#231163 | pixilated | |
#257990 | bacchanalian | |
#261553 | tiddly | |
#268320 | slopped | |
#312870 | soused |
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