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serious-minded
adjective as in steady
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Example Sentences
Earlier this year, the two candidates pledged a clean campaign, one that was above the fray, serious-minded.
A more serious-minded direction seems right at first, but then that old, inflated sense of purpose can also lead to bigger damage.
Of course, all of you young ladies are too serious-minded to do such a thing yourselves.
The youth's name proved to be Severne, and he was the most serious-minded youth who had ever stepped from college into writing.
Serious-minded youths never know enough not to believe what a girl says.
Severne took his trouble henceforward in a becomingly serious-minded manner.
So, naturally, he did the obvious thing—that is to say, the obvious thing to a serious-minded writer with no sense of humour.
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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to serious-minded, such as: calm, constant, dependable, fast, intense, and reliable.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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