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adjective

Serious adj.

Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. "He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease."

Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.

Important; weighty; not trifling; grave. "The holy Scriptures bring to our ears the most serious things in the world."

Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.

Synonyms: Grave; solemn; earnest; sedate; important; weighty. See Grave.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Serious" Quotes from Famous Books

... a thousand ways 490 She whirls her giddy empire. Lo, thus far With bold adventure to the Mantuan lyre I sing for contemplation link'd with love, A pensive theme. Now haply should my song Unbend that serious countenance, and learn Thalia's tripping gait, her shrill-toned voice, Her wiles familiar: whether scorn she darts In wanton ambush from her lip or eye, Or whether, with a sad disguise of care O'ermantling ...

— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside

... been married now eight years. Does it not occur to you that this is the first time we two, you and I, husband and wife, have had a serious conversation? ...

— A Doll's House • Henrik Ibsen

... me a serious source of annoyance that so large a number of persons endeavor to impress upon my mind the idea that it is an act of charity to patronize me to the extent of the purchase of a single book, while just after me a strong man, with faculties unimpaired, a man amply able to do other ...

— The World As I Have Found It - Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl • Mary L. Day Arms

... during the voyage, and this is the first day that he has found tolerable. Once more he is able to eat and stand up; able to think, devise, resolve, and execute; able, in short, to be Coronado. Look at the little, sunburnt, sinewy, earnest, enduring man; study his diplomatic countenance, serious and yet courteous, full of gravity and yet ready for gayety; notice his ready smile and gracious wave of the hand as he salutes the skipper. He has been through horrors; he has fought a tremendous fight of passion, crime, and peril; yet he scarcely ...

— Overland • John William De Forest

... "I don't think anything serious happened to them, anyhow," said Job Titus one day. "And I should hate to think our work was responsible ...

— Tom Swift and his Big Tunnel - or, The Hidden City of the Andes • Victor Appleton

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