sedate

3 definitions • 4 examples

avoiding excitement or great activity and usually calm and relaxed:

The fight against a chemical storage site has transformed a normally sedate village into a battleground.

The speed limit is a sedate 55 mph.

to cause a person or animal to be very calm or go to sleep by giving them a drug:

When I saw him after the accident he was still in shock and was heavily sedated.

calm and controlled, and often traditional in habit or manner:

She preferred standard ballads and sedate pop tunes to rock music.