seriously
adverb (NOT JOKING) /ˈsɪə.ri.əs.li/
/ˈsɪr.i-/ Definition
B2 in a serious way, not joking: Seriously now, did he really say that or are you just being silly? You're not seriously thinking of leaving, are you?Lacking humour
(Definition of seriously adverb (NOT JOKING) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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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
- serious adjective (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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