Thesaurus / more serious
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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
- major
- grievous
- dangerous
- deep
- far-reaching
- urgent
- severe
- important
- significant
- tough
- meaningful
- difficult
- arduous
- fateful
- fell
- formidable
- grave
- grim
- hard
- heavy
- laborious
- menacing
- momentous
- operose
- pressing
- strenuous
- threatening
- ugly
- worrying
- no joke
- no laughing matter
- of consequence
- out for blood
- playing hard ball
- smoking
- sobering
- strictly business
- unamusing
- unhumorous
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antonyms for more serious
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- light
- happy
- funny
- easy
- calm
- small
- little
- flippant
- meaningless
- worthless
- facile
- friendly
- trivial
- unimportant
- insignificant
- minor
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Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINI waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANBernard stood there face to face with Mrs. Vivian, whose eyes seemed to plead with him more than ever.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESHe was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODJoe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENThe vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODOf course, considerations of weight have to be taken into account, but the more mould round the roots the better.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTIN"Better so," was the Senora's sole reply; and she fell again into still deeper, more perplexed thought about the hidden treasure.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONOn the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTINHilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
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