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UK
/sˈiəɹɪəs/
]
[ US /ˈsɪɹiəs/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪɹiəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
of great consequence
marriage is a serious matter -
concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities
are you serious or joking?
a serious young man
Don't be so serious!
a serious student of history
gave me a serious look
a serious attempt to learn to ski -
appealing to the mind
good music
a serious book - completely lacking in playfulness
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requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve
raised serious objections to the proposal
the plan has a serious flaw -
causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
a severe case of pneumonia
a serious turn of events
grievous bodily harm
a life-threatening disease
a dangerous operation
a grave illness
a grave situation
a serious wound
How To Use serious In A Sentence
- The only seriously bad bit is that you become less agile and less strong. Times, Sunday Times
- Moreover some parts of gain will devolute to Italian Red Cross seriously employed in the disastrous earthquake land that hit the middle lands of Italia few weeks ago. MacMegasite
- He did his final piece of serious work on Tuesday morning, which was grand, and we have just kept him ticking over with a couple of canters.
- So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse.
- A serious road accident caused traffic chaos yesterday.
- The results were disastrous, plunging the country into deep depression, with high unemployment, sharply falling living standards and serious political unrest.
- I do not of course mean, Heaven forbid! that people should try to converse seriously; that results in the worst kind of dreariness, in feeling, as Stevenson said, that one has the brain of a sheep and the eyes of a boiled codfish. From a College Window
- My monitor fills with images of two men saluting, grinning thumbs up or looking dead serious.
- A fellow council worker, who had just got out of the vehicle and was standing close at the time of the impact, suffered serious injuries.
- Hundreds of the aircraft are on order, but loss of the Northwest batch is a serious setback.