sedan | (noun) a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors | Synonyms: saloon |
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(noun) a closed litter for one passenger | Synonyms: sedan chair |
sedate | (adjective) characterized by dignity and propriety | Synonyms: staid |
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(adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: grave, sober, solemn |
(verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
sedately | (adverb) in a sedate manner | Synonyms: calmly |
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sedateness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: solemness, solemnity, staidness |
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sedation | (noun) the administration of a sedative agent or drug | Synonyms: drugging |
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(noun) a state of reduced excitement or anxiety that is induced by the administrative of a sedative agent | - |
sedative | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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(noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, downer, sedative drug |
sedentary | (adjective) requiring sitting or little activity | - |
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sedge | (noun) grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers | - |
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sedgelike | (adjective) resembling rush or sedge | Synonyms: rushlike |
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sedgy | (adjective) covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants) | - |
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sediment | (noun) matter that has been deposited by some natural process | Synonyms: deposit |
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(verb) settle as sediment | - |
(verb) deposit as a sediment | - |
sedimentary | (adjective) produced by the action of water | Synonyms: aqueous |
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(adjective) resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment | - |
sedimentation | (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: alluviation, deposit |
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sedition | (noun) an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government | - |
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seditious | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: insurgent, subversive |
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(adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing |
seduce | (verb) lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct | - |
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(verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: make, score |
seducer | (noun) a man who takes advantage of women | Synonyms: ladies' man, lady killer |
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(noun) a bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing | - |
seduction | (noun) enticing someone astray from right behavior | - |
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(noun) an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone | Synonyms: conquest |
seductive | (adjective) tending to entice into a desired action or state | - |
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seductively | (adverb) in a tempting seductive manner | Synonyms: temptingly |
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seductress | (noun) a woman who seduces | - |
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sedulity | (noun) the quality of being constantly diligent and attentive | Synonyms: sedulousness |
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sedulous | (adjective) marked by care and persistent effort | Synonyms: assiduous |
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sedulously | (adverb) in a sedulous manner | - |
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sedulousness | (noun) the quality of being constantly diligent and attentive | Synonyms: sedulity |
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sedum | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Sedum | - |
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