Important; weighty; not insignificant.
This is a serious problem. We'll need our best experts.
Really intending what is said (or planned, etc); in earnest; not jocular or deceiving.
After all these years, we're finally getting serious attention.
seriously, in a serious manner (most often heard in take or mean serious
The only time I walk out on singin' is when there's muckin' about and youse don't take it serious.
From Middle English seryows, from Old French serieux, from Medieval Latin sēriōsus, an extension of Latin sērius (“grave, earnest, serious”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”). Cognate with Ge...
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