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Synonyms for serious
ˈsɪər i əsse·ri·ous
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Wiktionary
seriousadjective
Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving; meaningful.
After all these years, we're finally getting serious attention.
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jestingseriousadjective
Antonyms:
trifling, unimportant
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
serious
Synonyms:
grave, thoughtful, careful, earnest, solemn, important, weightyAntonyms:
volatile, gay, thoughtless, careless, joking, jocose, insignificant, unimportant, trifling, trivial, light
Princeton's WordNet
seriousadjective
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!"
Synonyms:
unplayful, severe, grave, good, life-threatening, sober, dangerous, grievousAntonyms:
flighty, trivial, scatterbrained, light, lightheaded, light-headed, empty-headed, head-in-the-clouds, noncritical, silly, dizzy, flippant, flyaway, featherbrained, noncrucial, airheaded, frivolous, giddy, nonintellectual, easy, light-minded, unimportant, idleseriousadjective
of great consequence
"marriage is a serious matter"
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unplayful, severe, grave, good, life-threatening, sober, dangerous, grievousAntonyms:
dizzy, light, light-headed, empty-headed, flyaway, scatterbrained, giddy, lightheaded, head-in-the-clouds, nonintellectual, unimportant, flighty, light-minded, idle, flippant, airheaded, featherbrained, silly, trivial, noncrucial, easy, noncritical, frivolousdangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threateningadjective
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"
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severe, sober, wicked, stark, unsafe, terrible, hard, spartan, stern, heavy, unplayful, weighty, monstrous, grave, good, grievous, atrocious, sedate, flagitious, life-threatening, dangerous, knockout, austere, heartbreaking, heartrending, solemnAntonyms:
light-headed, empty-headed, giddy, lightheaded, featherbrained, easy, dizzy, airheaded, flighty, flyaway, noncritical, head-in-the-clouds, trivial, frivolous, silly, unimportant, noncrucial, light, nonintellectual, flippant, light-minded, scatterbrained, idlegood, seriousadjective
appealing to the mind
"good music"; "a serious book"
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dear, good, beneficial, unplayful, in effect(p), unspoiled, skillful, sound, secure, effective, severe, upright, salutary, in force(p), skilful, practiced, dependable, estimable, life-threatening, grievous, expert, just, grave, dangerous, sober, proficient, full, honest, respectable, undecomposed, unspoilt, ripe, safe, adept, honorable, well(p), right, nearAntonyms:
flighty, featherbrained, light-minded, scatterbrained, dizzy, flyaway, flippant, empty-headed, easy, noncritical, idle, airheaded, silly, noncrucial, lightheaded, light, head-in-the-clouds, unimportant, giddy, nonintellectual, light-headed, trivial, frivolousunplayful, serious, soberadjective
completely lacking in playfulness
Synonyms:
severe, sombre, drab, grave, good, sedate, unplayful, life-threatening, sober, somber, dangerous, grievous, solemnAntonyms:
dizzy, noncrucial, silly, giddy, flighty, lightheaded, empty-headed, flyaway, scatterbrained, flippant, light-minded, head-in-the-clouds, featherbrained, airheaded, light, trivial, unimportant, nonintellectual, light-headed, easy, noncritical, idle, frivolousseriousadjective
requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve
"raised serious objections to the proposal"; "the plan has a serious flaw"
Synonyms:
unplayful, severe, grave, good, life-threatening, sober, dangerous, grievousAntonyms:
light-headed, unimportant, nonintellectual, lightheaded, trivial, empty-headed, noncrucial, light, head-in-the-clouds, silly, flighty, noncritical, flippant, giddy, scatterbrained, flyaway, dizzy, light-minded, easy, featherbrained, frivolous, idle, airheaded
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PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "serious":
grave, severe, seriously, acute, major, gross, dangerous, earnest, heavy, grievous, significant, dire, deep, graves, great, conscientiously, gravely, seriousness, critical, important, profound, considerable, severely, bad, earnestly, big, gravity, substantial, large, egregious, strong, huge, jad, real, difficult
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How to use serious in a sentence?
If OAS member countries don't address this financial crisis, it will cast serious doubts on their commitment to human rights and raise suspicions that they want to do away with the commission's scrutiny.
Ten individuals suffered minor injuries following large fire lit as part of local Jewish community celebration in Ravensdale Road, Stamford Hill, no criminal allegations reported. No serious injuries.
Higher-level officials routinely leak sensitive — sometimes even classified — information to advance their own personal interests and rarely face serious consequences, but if a whistleblower leaks sensitive information of public interest, the hammer comes down.
At a time when our nation is hurting the President continues to forgo any effort to calm tensions, as we had all hoped he would. Instead he used force to remove peaceful protesters to stage a photo opportunity. Instead of taking a moment of silence in front of the historic St Johns' Episcopal Church to pray for the lives lost he gathered his cronies to take a picture. Instead of doing the right thing, he once again did the absolute wrong thing, i have serious concerns about using military forces to respond to protestors. The role of the U.S. military in domestic U.S. law enforcement is limited by law. It must not be used in violation of those limits and I see little evidence that President Trump understands this fundamental premise.
Saudi women fleeing their families can face severe violence from relatives, deprivation of liberty, and other serious harm if returned against The Saudi women will, thai authorities should immediately halt any deportation, and either allow her to continue her travel to Australia or permit her to remain in Thailand to seek protection as a refugee.
Translations for serious
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- جدي, جادArabic
- сур'ёзныBelarusian
- seriósCatalan, Valencian
- vážnýCzech
- o ddifri', difrifolWelsh
- alvorligDanish
- ernst, schwerwiegend, ernsthaftGerman
- σοβαρόςGreek
- grava, seriozaEsperanto
- serioSpanish
- vakavamielinen, totinen, vakavaFinnish
- álvarsamurFaroese
- sérieux, sérieuseFrench
- komoly, súlyosHungarian
- լուրջArmenian
- alvarlegurIcelandic
- serio, graveItalian
- 本気, 真剣, 真面目Japanese
- 심각한Korean
- gravis, sevērusLatin
- svarīgs, nopietnsLatvian
- taumaha, tūpoupouMāori
- seriusMalay
- serieus, ernstigDutch
- seriøs, alvorligNorwegian
- poważnyPolish
- sérioPortuguese
- seriosRomanian
- серьёзныйRussian
- hládan, ȍzbīljan, vážan, znȁčājanSerbo-Croatian
- seriös, allvarlig, allvarsamSwedish
- ciddiTurkish
- серйознийUkrainian
- سنجیدہUrdu
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