Crossword-Solution: SOBER 5 letters, 215 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Sober	superl.	Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.
Sober	superl.	Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.
Sober	superl.	Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.
Sober	superl.	Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
Sober	superl.	Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.
Sober	v. t.	To make sober.
Sober	v. i.	To become sober; -- often with down.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SOBER	anagram	BOERS, BORES, BORSE, BROSE, OBERS, ROBES, SERBO, SOBRE

We have 215 clues for the answer “SOBER”

Clue	Answers
"Clean and ___" (1988)	1 answer
"Hate Bein' ___" (2012 Chief Keef hit)	1 answer
AA-approved	1 answer
Able to walk a straight line	1 answer
Able to walk the line	1 answer
Adjective for a judge	1 answer
Affected by gravity	1 answer
Below 0.08 on the Breahalyzer, in most states	1 answer
Calm; thoughtful	1 answer
Clean partner	1 answer
Clean's partner	1 answer
Drab as colors	1 answer
Earnestly thoughtful	1 answer
Even-keeled	1 answer
Far from drunk	1 answer
Far from hammered	1 answer
Far from wasted	1 answer
Fit for designated driving	1 answer
Fit to drive	1 answer
Forgoing alcohol	1 answer
Forgoing frivolity	1 answer
Frightful bores, sedate and rational	1 answer
Good for driving	1 answer
Good thing to be behind the wheel	1 answer
Hardly hammered	1 answer
Having a 0 percent BAC	1 answer
Having a BAC of zero	1 answer
Having slept it off, maybe	1 answer
In no laughing mood.	1 answer
Judgelike	1 answer
Lacking sauce?	1 answer
Like a designated driver	1 answer
Like a designated driver, hopefully	1 answer
Like a designated driver, optimally	1 answer
Like a designated driver, presumably	1 answer
Like a judge, in a saying	1 answer
Like a judge, presumably	1 answer
Like a judge, proverbially	1 answer
Like a teetotaler	1 answer
Like an unimpaired driver	1 answer
Like one who passes the bar, perhaps?	1 answer
Like the designated driver	1 answer
Like the designated driver, by design	1 answer
Like those earning milestone chips from A.A.	1 answer
MAKE serious	1 answer
Moderate and well balanced	1 answer
Neither stewed nor pickled?	1 answer
No longer drunk	1 answer
No longer loaded?	1 answer
No longer smashed	1 answer

✏️ Suggest another clue Know another question for crossword solution "SOBER"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!

Dermatological complaint

?

E

?

C

?

Z

?

E

?

M

?

A

Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

MEZCAE

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

Play Crossword

12 +1

New Suggestion for "SOBER"

Related word tools

Unscramble SOBER 5-letter words that start with S 5-letter words that end in R 5-letter words containing OB 5-letter words containing ER 5-letter words with S and O

Sentences with SOBER (5)

The staid, sober, thinking and industrious ones of our number would employ themselves in making corn-brooms, mats, horse-collars, and baskets; and another class of us would spend the time in hunting opossums, hares, and coons.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

The gentleman-farmer was dressed in cheerful style, in a new coat and white waistcoat, quite contrasting with his usual sober suits of grey.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

First, I bid thee think, Would any mortal choose a troubled reign Of terrors rather than secure repose, If the same power were given him? As for me, I have no natural craving for the name Of king, preferring to do kingly deeds, And so thinks every sober-minded man.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

And once Hester was seen embroidering a baby-garment with such a lavish richness of golden fancy as would have raised a public tumult had any infant thus apparelled, been shown to our sober-hued community.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Grotesque and foolish as this will seem to the sober reader, it is absolutely true, and what is more remarkable, I found the card game and several others we played extremely interesting.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with SOBER (3)

Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.

W.N.P. Barbellion The Journal of a Disappointed Man

He was still thoughtful. 'Do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?' 'Philosophy, Lord Dryden? And yet it's daylight and everyone is still sober.

Julie Anne Long How the Marquess Was Won

Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ‘important’ only if ‘tis sober and severe. Sure and still you’re right about your Cheerful Dum, only they’re not so much happy as lobotomized. But your Gloomy Smart are just as ridiculous. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like the…

Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 297 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).