serious
adjective (NOT JOKING) /ˈsɪə.ri.əs/
/ˈsɪr.i-/ Definition
B1 not joking or intended to be funny: Please don't laugh - I'm being serious. He was wearing a very serious expression and I knew something was wrong. On the surface it's a very funny novel but it does have a more serious underlying theme.Lacking humour B1 A serious person is quiet, thinks carefully about things, and does not laugh a lot: I remember her as a very serious child.Lacking humour
(Definition of serious adjective (NOT JOKING) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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series noun (SET OF EVENTS)
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serious adjective (BAD)
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serious adjective (DETERMINED)
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serious adjective (EXTREME)
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serious adjective (NEEDING ATTENTION)
- serious adjective (NOT JOKING)
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seriously adverb (BADLY)
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seriously adverb (EXTREMELY)
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seriously adverb (NEEDING ATTENTION)
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seriously adverb (NOT JOKING)
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seriousness noun (BAD)
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Synonyms and related words:
- be no laughing matter idiom
- earnest adjective
- humourless adjective
- intense adjective
- lightly adverb (NOT SERIOUSLY)
- mirthless adjective
- po-faced adjective
- poker-faced adjective
- saturnine adjective
- seriously adverb (NOT JOKING)
- sober adjective (SERIOUS)
- sober verb
- soberly adverb
- solemn adjective
- solemnity noun
- sombre adjective
- starchily adverb
- starchy adjective (FORMAL)
- take a joke idiom
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