stone-sober
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6.9
- adjective
- /stoʊn ˈsoʊbər/
- Informal
- After the party, I was stone sober and ready to drive home safely.
Examples
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She was stone sober, her hands behind her back, steady, like a martyr.
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You mean, this is you stone sober?
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That he had lived in this mangy place for so long stone sober still surprised him.
Fiction book (1998) -
I'm cold stone sober.
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She was stone sober, her hands behind her back, steady, like a martyr.
Fiction book (1992) -
The man's stone sober.
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BACK TO THE COURTROOM (INT. /DAY): Joe sits with a stone-sober expression: this isn't easy. # BELINDA #
Fiction book (1993) -
He appeared to be stone sober—no wobble to his walk, no squint to his eyes, no puffiness in his cheeks—and I told my mother so.
Fiction book (1991) -
He appeared to be stone sober—no wobble to his walk, no squint to his eyes, no puffiness in his cheeks.
Synonyms
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3.2
Not having drunk alcohol or taken drugs
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6.2
Completely free of alcohol or drugs
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5.6
Not affected by alcohol or drugs at all
A person who is not affected by alcohol
Not affected by alcohol or drugs
Not drunk or affected by alcohol
Not consumed as a drink or not affected by alcohol
Antonyms
How Sober
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word stone-sober uses stone as a strong image of something hard and unmoving, so it means 'completely' sober and not affected by alcohol. Think of stone-cold or stone-deaf — the stone part shows total, not a little, which is why stone-sober means fully sober.