Usually means: Not influenced by intoxicating substances.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. sober: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sober: Merriam-Webster
  3. sober: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sober: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sober: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sober: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sober, sober: Wordnik
  8. sober: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sober, sober: Wiktionary
  10. sober: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sober: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sober: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sober: Dictionary.com
  14. sober: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sober: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SOBER, Sober (Big Bang song), Sober (Childish Gambino song), Sober (Demi Lovato song), Sober (G-Eazy song), Sober (Jennifer Paige song), Sober (Kelly Clarkson song), Sober (Lorde song), Sober (Loreen song), Sober (Pink song), Sober (Selena Gomez song), Sober (Tool song), Sober (song), Sober (worm), Sober: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sober: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sober: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sober: Rhymezone
  20. sober: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sober: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sober: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sober: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Sober: The Word Detective
  25. sober: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. sober: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SOBER (cipher), Sober (song), sober: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SOBER (cipher), Sober (song), sober: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SOBER: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. sober: Idioms

(Note: See sobered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not drunk; not intoxicated.
adjective:  Not under the influence of any recreational drug.
adjective:  Not given to excessive drinking of alcohol.
adjective:  (figurative) Moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled.
adjective:  (of color) Dull; not bright or colorful.
adjective:  Subdued; solemn; grave.
adjective:  (Scotland) Poor; feeble.
verb:  (often with up) To make or become sober.
verb:  (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.
verb:  To moderate one's feelings; to accept a disappointing reality after losing one's ability to believe in a fantastic goal.
noun:  A surname.

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