English Dictionary

sedate

IPA（発音記号）

/sɪˈdeɪt/

形容詞

人物・行動 目的語

(of a person or their behaviour) Remaining composed and dignified, and avoiding too much activity or excitement. / (of an object, particularly a building) Not overly ornate or showy.

日本語の意味

（人物やその行動）落ち着いており、威厳があって、過度の活動や興奮を避ける様子。 / （特に建物などの物）過剰な装飾を施さず、控えめであること。

At the ceremony, her sedate manner brought a calm to the room.

式典で、彼女の落ち着いた気品のある態度が会場に穏やかな雰囲気をもたらした。

意味（1）

(of a person or their behaviour) Remaining composed and dignified, and avoiding too much activity or excitement.

[…] they will rashly huddle up all together, and not admitting the least check of a sedate judgement, publish onely the impetuous dictates of their indiscreet and too precipitant fancie […]

意味（2）

(of an object, particularly a building) Not overly ornate or showy.

Sometimes she passed down avenues of sedate mansions, soberly numbered ‘one’, ‘two’, ‘three’, and so on right up to two or three hundred, each the copy of the other, with two pillars and six steps and a pair of curtains neatly drawn […]

more sedate （ comparative ）

most sedate （ superlative ）