Sober vs Recovery - What's the difference?
sober | recovery |
not drunk; not intoxicated
not given to excessive drinking of alcohol
* Book of Common Prayer
moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled
* Dryden
* 2005 , .
dull; not bright or colorful
* Milton
subdued; solemn; grave
* Prior
* Alexander Pope
(often with up ) To make or become sober.
* Alexander Pope
(often with up ) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.
The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
A return to normal health.
A return to former status.
Renewed growth after a slump (economy).
As nouns the difference between sober and recovery
is that sober is friend while recovery is the act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.sober
English
Adjective
(er)- a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of Thy holy name
- No sober man would put himself into danger for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck.
- Which is the finest and soberest state possible.
- Twilight grey / Had in her sober livery all things clad.
- What parts gay France from sober Spain?
- See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby.
Synonyms
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* (not drunk) drunkSee also
* teetotallerVerb
(en verb)- There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again.
- ''It took him hours to sober up .