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sober

adjective
  1. Exercising moderation and self-restraint in appetites and behavior: abstemious, continent, temperate. See restraint
  2. Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are: down-to-earth, hard, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, objective, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, prosaic, realistic, tough-minded, unromantic. See excite, real
  3. Full of or marked by dignity and seriousness: earnest 1, grave 2, sedate, serious, solemn, somber, staid. See attitude, heavy

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