Sober vs Suber - What's the difference?
sober | suber |
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.
(dated, technical) Cork, or the corresponding layer of woody tissue below the epidermis of a plant
*{{quote-book, 1869, Louis Figuier, The Vegetable World, page=39, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=4AgPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA39
, passage=In many trees the suber is very slightly developed. But this is not the case with the Cork-oak (Quercus suber ).}}
As nouns the difference between sober and suber
is that sober is friend while suber is (dated|technical) cork, or the corresponding layer of woody tissue below the epidermis of a plant.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 .