Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense sedates, present participle sedating, past tense, past participle sedated
1ADJ-GRADED [usually ADJ n]安静的;庄重的;不苟言笑的;平淡无奇的 If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull. 安静的;庄重的;不苟言笑的;平淡无奇的
She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins.
她带他们去拜访她那些不苟言笑的表兄表姐们。
Her London life was sedate, almost mundane.
她在伦敦的生活平淡无奇,几乎有些枯燥。
I live in a sedate little village in the Midlands.