Usually means: Calmly, quietly, in a composed manner.
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  1. sedately: Merriam-Webster
  2. sedately: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sedately: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sedately: Vocabulary.com
  5. sedately: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sedately: Wiktionary
  7. sedately: Dictionary.com
  8. sedately: Rhymezone
  9. sedately: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. sedately: FreeDictionary.org
  11. sedately: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. sedately: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. sedately: Wordnik

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  1. sedately: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sedately: Medical dictionary

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▸ adverb:  Calmly, without excessive emotion or force; in a composed manner.

Similar:
calmly, composedly, calmingly, serenely, collectedly, tranquilly, placidly, settledly, imperturbably, stolidly, more...

Opposite:
frantically, chaotically, wildly, frenziedly

Types:
calmly, quietly, peacefully, mildly, slowly, more...



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Similar:
calmly, composedly, calmingly, serenely, collectedly, tranquilly, placidly, settledly, imperturbably, stolidly, more...

Opposite:
frantically, chaotically, wildly, frenziedly

Types:
calmly, quietly, peacefully, mildly, slowly, more...



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