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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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Etymology of 'Serious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Serious" Quotes from Famous Books

... indeed than a ballad opera in embryo lasting about twenty-five minutes and given as an after-piece. It was a rhymed farce in which the dialogue was sung or chanted by the characters to popular ballad tunes. But after the Restoration the Jig assumed a new and more serious complexion, and came eventually to be dovetailed with the play itself, instead of being given at the fag end of the entertainment. Mr. W.J. Lawrence, the well-known theatrical authority to whom I owe much valuable information contained in this note, would (doubtless ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn

... slight start and dropped his eyes. Eliza saw it, and a sarcastic smile played round her lips. "Why do you not speak?" she said. "Reply to me. Did I understand you? Did you make serious proposals of marriage to me? Will you go down to my father this very day and say to him: 'Listen, sir. I, the aristocratic gentleman, I, Captain Ulrich von Hohenberg, want to marry your daughter Lizzie. I think this country girl, with her manners, her language and bearing, is well fitted to associate ...

— Andreas Hofer • Lousia Muhlbach

... of life and strength, and her touch shows her confidence in herself and her technical knowledge. She is, however, a severe critic of her own work and is greatly disturbed by indiscriminating praise. She is serious and preoccupied in her studio, but with her friends she is full of gayety, and is greatly admired, both as a ...

— Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. • Clara Erskine Clement

... she added with a wan smile, "I did not give serious thought to your troubles, Elsie. Ventana could never have married you while ...

— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy

... brightest summer has winter behind it. In the cold, dreary month of February, when I was nineteen months old, I had a serious illness. I still have confused memories of that illness. My mother sat beside my little bed and tried to soothe my feverish moans while in her troubled heart she prayed, "Father in Heaven, spare my baby's ...

— Story of My Life • Helen Keller

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