If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull. She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins + sedately se·date·ly sedately dressed in business suit with waistcoat
cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation"
If you move along at a sedate pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way. We set off again at a more sedate pace. + sedately se·date·ly He pulled sedately out of the short driveway
dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
If someone is sedated, they are given a drug to calm them or to make them sleep. The patient is sedated with intravenous use of sedative drugs Doctors have been told not to sedate children with an anaesthetic that may be linked to five deaths. + sedated se·dat·ed Grace was asleep, lightly sedated. to give someone drugs to make them calm or to make them sleep