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Adjective sober has 4 senses
- sober - not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
Antonyms: intoxicated, drunk, inebriated, bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet, bibulous, boozy, drunken, sottish, doped, drugged, narcotized, narcotised, half-seas-over, high, mellow, hopped-up, stoned
- grave, sedate, sober, solemn - dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
Antonym: frivolous (indirect, via serious)
- drab, sober, somber, sombre - lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes"
Antonyms: colorful, colourful (indirect, via colorless)
- unplayful, serious, sober - completely lacking in playfulness
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