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Synonyms for sobering
sober·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
soberingadjective
tending to make sober or more serious
"the news had a sobering effect"
Antonyms:
frivolous
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List of paraphrases for "sobering":
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#25029 | bleak | |
#32975 | instructive | |
#48011 | sobering |
How to use sobering in a sentence?
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
Anne Barrett Doyle of BishopAccountability.org:
Today's news from Minnesota is a sobering reminder that the real source of accountability in the Catholic abuse crisis continues to reside outside the church, nienstedt and Piche would still be in power if not for (Choi's) recent indictment of the archdiocese.
This is very sobering. The fact that you can get a life-threatening situation from taking a medication. It can happen, and most people don't think twice about taking pills for things, in fact, most of the time you do have some sort of side reaction to medication, just not this severe.
A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am
The seas of Antarctica are treacherous and unforgiving, this incident is a sobering reminder of the importance of the U.S. icebreaker fleet as we see increased human activity in the polar regions.
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