Thesaurus / serious
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synonyms for 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
See also synonyms for: nonserious / seriousness
- dangerous
- deep
- difficult
- far-reaching
- grievous
- important
- major
- meaningful
- severe
- significant
- tough
- urgent
- arduous
- fateful
- fell
- formidable
- grave
- grim
- hard
- heavy
- laborious
- meaning business
- menacing
- momentous
- no joke
- no laughing matter
- of consequence
- operose
- out for blood
- playing hard ball
- pressing
- smoking
- sobering
- strenuous
- strictly business
- threatening
- ugly
- unamusing
- unhumorous
- worrying
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antonyms for serious
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- calm
- easy
- facile
- friendly
- insignificant
- little
- meaningless
- minor
- small
- trivial
- unimportant
- worthless
- flippant
- funny
- happy
- light
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How to use serious in a sentence
Joe 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) OGDENIt is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYBetween South and North, the probabilities of a serious, and no very distant rupture, are strong and manifest.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSNever then was there a moment in which there was greater need for sane and serious thought.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKThough the amount played for is serious, a good deal of rather bald conversation and chaff goes on.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSDiacetic acid occurs in the same conditions as acetone, but is less frequent and has more serious significance.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDHis symptoms became so serious that often we expected nothing less than that he would die on our hands.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUSThey all wore very large linen collars and black cravats, which gave them a very serious appearance.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYLA serious insurrection occurred at Dresden, in Saxony, but was in a few days put down.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLShe spoke with such a serious, tender grace, that Gordon seemed stirred to his depths again.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESWORDS RELATED TO SERIOUS
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