self-controlled, passionless, impassive, detached, even-tempered, imperturable, unexcitable, unflappable.
2. staid, proper, decorous, dignified, refined, genteel; stiff, formal, strict, straitlaced, Inf. uptight, straight-arrow, fussy; solemn, dreary, dull, Inf. deadly; old-fashioned, fusty, extremely conventional, Inf. of the old school. sedative, adj. 1. calming, soothing, lenitive, palliative, assuasive, allaying, alleviative, balsamic, pleasing; anodyne, Med. analgesic, anesthetic, pain-killing, deadening, numbing; sleep-inducing, soporific, opiate, narcotic, Lethean, hypnotic.
-n. 2. opiate, drug, soother, palliative, anodyne, nepenthe; balm, solace, comfort; depressant, tranquilizer, soporific, sleeping pill; analgesic, pain-killer, aspirin; meperidine, Pharm. Trademark. Demerol; hypnotic, narcotic, barbiturate, SI.barbs, Inf. down or downer. sedentary, adj. 1. immobile, stationary, fixed, unmoving; seated, sitting, Inf. sit-down; idle, dormant, static, stagnant, vegetative; unchanging, routine, Inf stay-put, Inf. stay-at-home.
2. quiet, calm, tranquil, serene; relaxed, peaceful, reposeful; unruffled, undisturbed. sediment, n. lees, dregs, grounds, deposit, settlings, draff, dunder, Chem. sublimate, crystals, Chem. precipitate; residue, residuum, remainder, remains, dross, scoria, scum; silt, alluvium, precipitation, deposition, sinter. sedition, n. 1. incitement, incitement to riot, incitation, instigation, excitation, fomentation, agitation, firing, stirring, stirring-up, whipping-up, rabble-rousing.
2. rebelliousness, mutinousness, defiance, defiance of authority, civil disobedience, passive resistance, in-surrectionism, insurgency.
3. insurrection, mutiny, insurgence, rebellion, uprising, civil disorder; sit-in, protest, protest march, demonstration; commotion, disorder, disturbance, excitement, unruliness, restiveness, restlessness, fractiousness. seditious, adj. 1. dissentious, factious, sedition-ary; defiant, rebel, insurrectionary, renegade, muti-neering, revolutionary; rebellious, mutinous, insurgent, insurrectionist; inflammatory, rabble-rousing.
2. unruly, restive, refractory, insubordinate, disobedient; riotous, tumultuous, turbulent, out of control; lawless, extreme, extremist; treasonable, traitorous, turncoat, subversive; breakaway, secessionist, protestant, separatist, recreant. seduce, v. 1. lead astray, tempt, lure, inveigle, bewitch, enrapture, enthrall, snare, ensnare, trap, entrap, hook, rope in; blandish, cajole, induce, persuade, Inf. sweet-talk; lead down the primrose path, SI.give the come-on, SI.charm the pants off of, SI.put the make on, SI.score with.
2. attract, allure, entice, beguile, captivate, charm; titillate, excite, draw on, magnetize.
3. deflower, ravish, violate, debauch; defile, corrupt, pervert. seducer, n. 1. flirt, charmer, tempter; playboy, fast man, fancy man, Inf. rip, SI.swinger; womanizer, lady killer, bedhopper, chaser, woman chaser, Inf. wolf; lover, Don Juan, Lothario, Cassanova, Romeo; philanderer, ladies' man, heartbreaker, skirt chaser, Inf. man on the make, Inf. make-out artist, gay dog, gay blade, gay deceiver, Inf. lover-boy; debaucher, cad, betrayer, defiler, violator, ravisher, satyr, goat, old goat, SI.dirty old man, SI.letch.