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sedateadjective not joking or playful in mood or mannerwhile not exactly cold, the doctor does maintain a sedate and purely professional demeanor with his patients earnest, grave, humorless, no-nonsense, po-faced(British), serious, severe, sober, sobersided, solemn, staid, uncomic, unsmiling, weighty harsh, stern, strictbusinesslike, professionaldignified, distinguished, elevated, serious-mindedgloomy, grim facetious, flip, flippant, humorous, jesting, jocular, joking, kittenish, ludic, playful antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, hysterical(also hysteric), laughable, light, light-headed, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, uproariousfeatherbrained, flighty, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, lighthearted, puerile, scatterbrainedabsurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, fatuous, foolish, half-witted, insane, jerky, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, unwise, wacky(also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany free from emotional or mental agitationher expression remained sedate as I told her the bad news calm, collected, composed, cool, coolheaded, equal, level, limpid, peaceful, placid, possessed, recollected, self-composed, self-possessed, serene, smooth, together, tranquil, undisturbed, unperturbed, unruffled, unshaken, untroubled, unworried even, even-keeled, steady, well-adjusted, well-balancedimperturbable, nerveless, unflappable, unshakablecentered, disciplined, equable, self-contained, self-controlledaffable, breezy, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, laid-back, loosey-goosey, mellowcarefree, nonchalant, unconcernedassured, confident, self-assuredaloof, detached, dispassionate, indifferentbovine, impassive, phlegmatic, sober, stolidrelaxed, relieved, tranquilized(also tranquillized) at peace agitated, discomposed, disturbed, flustered, perturbed, unglued, unhinged, unstrung, upset anxious, bothered, distressed, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, worriedjittery, jumpy, nervous, restless, skittish, tensehigh-strung, unstable, uptight serious, grave, solemn, sedate, staid, sober, earnest mean not light or frivolous.serious implies a concern for what really matters.a serious play about social injustice grave implies both seriousness and dignity in expression or attitude.read the proclamation in a grave voice solemn suggests an impressive gravity utterly free from levity.a sad and solemn occasion sedate implies a composed and decorous seriousness.remained sedate amid the commotion staid suggests a settled, accustomed sedateness and prim self-restraint.a quiet and staid community sober stresses seriousness of purpose and absence of levity or frivolity.a sober look at the state of our schools earnest suggests sincerity or often zealousness of purpose.an earnest reformer in 1663 |