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seriousadjective not joking or playful in mood or mannerI'm serious when I say that no one should be walking in that neighborhood at night earnest, grave, humorless, no-nonsense, po-faced(British), sedate, severe, sober, sobersided, solemn, staid, uncomic, unsmiling, weighty harsh, stern, strictbusinesslike, professionaldignified, distinguished, elevated, serious-mindedgloomy, grim facetious, flip, flippant, humorous, jesting, jocular, joking, kittenish, ludic, playful antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, hysterical(also hysteric), laughable, light, light-headed, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, uproariousfeatherbrained, flighty, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, lighthearted, puerile, scatterbrainedabsurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, fatuous, foolish, half-witted, insane, jerky, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, unwise, wacky(also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany having a matter of importance as its topica very serious film that dealt with the aftermath of the Gulf War grave, heavy, weighty big, consequential, eventful, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, portentous, significant, solid, substantial light, unserious frivolous, insignificant, lite, little, Mickey Mouse, minor, silly, slight, small, trivial, unimportant involving potential loss or injurya serious accident dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, threatening, unhealthy, unsafe, venturesome dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertainultrahazardouschance, haphazard, randomdistressing, sickening, unpleasantugly, wickedadverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilentdeadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous harmless, innocent, innocuous, nonhazardous, nonthreatening, safe, unthreatening advantageous, beneficial, goodultrasafe serious, grave, solemn, sedate, staid, sober, earnest mean not light or frivolous.serious implies a concern for what really matters.a serious play about social injustice grave implies both seriousness and dignity in expression or attitude.read the proclamation in a grave voice solemn suggests an impressive gravity utterly free from levity.a sad and solemn occasion sedate implies a composed and decorous seriousness.remained sedate amid the commotion staid suggests a settled, accustomed sedateness and prim self-restraint.a quiet and staid community sober stresses seriousness of purpose and absence of levity or frivolity.a sober look at the state of our schools earnest suggests sincerity or often zealousness of purpose.an earnest reformer in the 15th century |