Dictionary Definition
serious adj
1 concerned with work or important matters rather
than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a
serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a
serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so
serious!" [ant: frivolous]
2 of great consequence; "marriage is a serious
matter"
3 causing fear or anxiety by threatening great
harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave
illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious
turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening
disease" [syn: dangerous, grave, grievous, severe, life-threatening]
4 appealing to the mind; "good music"; "a serious
book" [syn: good]
6 requiring effort or concentration; complex and
not easy to answer or solve; "raised serious objections to the
proposal"; "the plan has a serious flaw"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Without humor or
expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition;
earnest; thoughtful; solemn.
- It was a surprise to see the captain, who had always seemed so serious, laugh so heartily.
- Important; weighty; not trifling; leaving no room for play;
needing great attention.
- This is a serious problem. We'll need our best experts.
- Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or
deceiving; meaningful.
- After all these years, we're finally getting serious attention.
Translations
without humor or expression of happiness
important; weighty; not trifling; leaving no
room for play
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 嚴重的, 严重的 (yánzhòng de)
- Czech: vážný
- Dutch: serieus
- Esperanto: serioza
- Finnish: vakava
- French: sérieux
- German: ernst, ernsthaft
- Hungarian: komoly, súlyos
- Italian: serio
- Japanese: 真面目な (まじめな, majimena), 真剣な (shinken'na)
- Korean: 심각한 (simgakhan)
- Latvian: svarīgs
- Portuguese: sério
- Russian: серьёзный (ser’józnyj)
- Spanish: serio
- Swedish: seriös
- Ukrainian: серйозний
- Welsh: difrifol
really intending what is said; being in earnest
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 嚴重的, 严重的 (yánzhòng de)
- Czech: vážný
- Dutch: ernstig, serieus
- Finnish: vakava
- French: sérieux
- German: ernsthaft
- Hungarian: komoly, súlyos
- Italian: serio
- Japanese: 真面目な (まじめな, majimena)
- Korean: 심각한 (simgakhan)
- Latvian: nopietns
- Portuguese: sério
- Russian: серьёзный (ser’józnyj)
- Spanish: serio
- Swedish: seriös
- Ukrainian: серйозний
- Welsh: o ddifri'
Translations to be checked
- ttbc Belarusian: сур'ёзны
Extensive Definition
Serious may refer to:
- "Serious" (Duran Duran song), a single from the album Liberty
- "Serious", a song from Welsh singer Duffy's number-one album "Rockferry"
- "Serious", a song from Gwen Stefani's album Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
- Serious (TV series), a BBC children's television show
- Serious (model) and character on Flavor of Love
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abandoned, acute, afire, alarming, ardent, arduous, austere, awe-inspiring, bad, bound, bound and determined,
burning, businesslike, cogitative, cognitive, committed, comprehensive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, consequential, considerable, contemplating, contemplative, critical, crucial, dangerous, dangersome, decided, decisive, decorous, dedicated, deep, definite, deliberating, deliberative, demure, determined, devoted, devout, difficult, dignified, dour, earnest, elevated, excogitating, exhaustive, explosive, faithful, fatal, fateful, fell, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, formal, formidable, fraught with
danger, frowning,
full, genuine, grand, grave, great, grievous, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged,
hearty, heated, heavy, honest, hot, hot-blooded, humorless, ideative, impassioned, important, imposing, in earnest, inspiring, intense, intent, intent on, introspective, irresistible, jeopardous, laborious, life-and-death,
life-or-death, lofty,
long-faced, loyal,
main, majestic, major, maximum, meditating, meditative, menacing, mental, mighty, moderate, momentous, moving, museful, musing, nasty, no joke, no laughing
matter, no-nonsense, noble, noetic, obstinate, on fire, operose, parlous, passionate, pensive, perfervid, periculous, perilous, persevering, persistent, plenary, poker-faced, pondering, portentous, powerful, precarious, prehensive, pressing, purposeful, red-hot, reflecting, reflective, relentless, resolute, resolved, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, sedate, serious-minded, severe, significant, sincere, single-minded, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solemn, somber, speculative, spirited, staid, stately, steady, stern, stone-faced,
straight-faced, straightforward,
strenuous, strong, sublime, temperate, tenacious, thinking, thought, thoughtful, threatening, total, tough, ugly, unamusing, unfunny, unsmiling, urgent, vehement, vital, warm, weighty, white-hot, wholehearted, wistful, zealous