Synonyms for more serious
- deliberate
- genuine
- honest
- severe
- sincere
- thoughtful
- sober
- austere
- bound
- bound and determined
- businesslike
- cold sober
- contemplative
- deadpan
- determined
- downbeat
- earnest
- funereal
- go for broke
- grave
- grim
- intent
- long-faced
- meditative
- no-nonsense
- pensive
- pokerfaced
- reflective
- resolute
- resolved
- sedate
- set
- solemn
- staid
- steady
- stern
- unhumorous
- unsmiling
- weighty
Antonyms for more serious
- deceptive
- dishonest
- false
- insincere
- misleading
- untrustworthy
- flippant
- funny
- happy
- light
- minor
- trivial
- unimportant
- unserious
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR MORE SERIOUS
"But this affair is more serious even than you know," said Juve.
But the Prefect of Paris has formed a more serious opinion, your Excellency.
That screaming is a more serious matter than at first may seem.
It is no more serious than that, and were she out of the way, he would wake as from a dream.
As to the stranger with the black mustache, that was a more serious matter.
And then, more serious even than before: “Denny, is––is that the only reason, now?”
In later lists, books of a more serious sort will be included.
Of course, his wound had been more serious than he would admit.
I think that we have more serious things to think of than masquerading.
If I have ever trifled with my subject, it was a more serious fault.