The definition of sober is not intoxicated or subdued in personality or color.
(adjective)See sober in Webster's New World College Dictionary
adjective
Origin: ME sobre < OFr < L sobrius < so(d)-, var. of se(d)-, without + ebrius, drunk
transitive verb, intransitive verb
See sober in American Heritage Dictionary 4
adjective so·ber·er, so·ber·est
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old French sobre
Origin: , from Latin sōbrius; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots
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