Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“sobered” is a form of

sober

/ˈsoʊ.bɚ/ adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms soberer soberest sobers sobering sobered

  1. adjective Not drunk; not intoxicated.
  2. adjective Not under the influence of any recreational drug.
  3. adjective Not given to excessive drinking of alcohol.
  4. adjective (figurative) Moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled.
  5. adjective (of color) Dull; not bright or colorful.
  6. adjective Subdued; solemn; grave.
  7. adjective (Scotland) Poor; feeble.
  8. verb (often with up) To make or become sober. “His expression sobered.”
  9. verb (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication. “It took him hours to sober up.”
  10. verb To moderate one's feelings; to accept a disappointing reality after losing one's ability to believe in a fantastic goal. “Losing his job was a sobering experience.”
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

abstemious temperate abstentious abstinent spareful measured mellow middle of the road mild moderate nonexcessive nonextreme nonfanatic proper reasonable reasonous tempered unexcessive unextreme calm sober up grave sedate solemn drab somber sombre unplayful serious

Antonyms

drunk Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted intoxicated

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sober, from Old French sobre, from Latin sōbrius, from se- (“without”) + ebrius (“intoxicated”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”). In the sense "not drunk," displaced native undrunken, from Old English undruncen.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man. That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of Thy holy name. Bk. of Com. Prayer.
  2. adjective Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.
  3. verb To make sober.
  4. verb To become sober; --often with down.

Etymology [OE. sobre, F. sobre, from L. sobrius, probably from a prefix so- expressing separation + ebrius drunken. Cf. Ebriety.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “sober”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “sober” (best matches first).