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soberer

adj

Etymology

From sober + -er (comparative suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).

  1. derived from *h₁egʷʰ-✻
  2. derived from sōbrius
  3. derived from sobre
  4. inherited from sober
  5. suffixed as soberer — “sober + er”

Definitions

  1. comparative form of sober

    comparative form of sober: more sober

  2. Something that makes a person sober.

    • I was once very mischievous—I am not so now, age is a sad soberer of frolic fancies […]
    • […] business, as we know, is the great soberer of theorists, no matter on what side they theorize.
    • […] love is an intoxicant, marriage the most effective of soberers.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA