Serious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SERIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• thoughtful or subdued in appearance
• demanding or characterized by careful consideration or application
• solemn or thoughtful in character or manner
• (of music, literature, or other art forms) requiring or meriting deep reflection
• acting or speaking sincerely and in earnest, rather than in a joking or half-hearted manner
• significant or worrying because of possible danger or risk; not slight or negligible
• substantial in terms of size, number, or quality
• giving cause for concern
• Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.
• Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.
• Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.
• Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.
• concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities
• of great consequence
• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
• appealing to the mind
• completely lacking in playfulness
• requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• thoughtful or subdued in appearance or manner

Words related to SERIOUS

deere6 seriously12 seriousness11 seriousnesses13

Words that contain SERIOUS

seriously12 unserious9 nonserious10 jocoserious20 overserious14 seriousness11 unseriously14 ultraserious12 halfseriously22 overseriously19 seriousnesses13 unseriousness13 unseriousnesses15

How to use SERIOUS in a sentence

• It is a noble and serious office to hand down from generation to generation the faith and traditions of the Church of God.
• Access to the Aegean was not, however, as serious a matter as access to the Adriatic.
• This was the last serious attempt on the part of any individual Irish chieftain to rise against the power of England.
• But as among the whites themselves there is one serious question.
• It was never a serious menace to the National government.
• So serious an aspect did the affair present that it was felt necessary to call a special meeting of the order after school.
• She was quite wrong in thinking herself so safe, for that path got her into very serious trouble.
• China has, however, appealed to Russia for help, and as France and England are equally interested in the matter, serious trouble may ensue.
• On inquiry about Captain Paley I found he had been sent down to Intombi Camp with other serious cases, but the doctors think he has a chance.
• Young married women, like you, who are devotedly attached to their husbands, are apt to make one very serious mistake.
• Dale then produced the first serious impression she had received.
• Such events are too serious, too possible, to be left to hazard, or to what is more than hazard, the will of an agent whose designs are so mysterious.
• But it is impossible they can be serious in attempting to bully us in this manner.
• Accordingly Irenaeus now shows that in the case of the children of freedom the situation has become much more serious, and that the judgments are now much more threatening.
• This was a more serious matter, for the Senussi were the largest native tribe in Egypt, and Turkish and German officers had been very busy amongst them.
• Before the eighteenth century the only property of serious importance consisted of land and buildings.
• You will never read her at that age, nor discover if she is frank or false, nor how far she is serious in her admissions or merely laughing at you.
• Something about the way they went at it convinced me they expected no very serious resistance.
• At the ferry we learned that there had been no serious loss of cattle so far, but that nearly all the stock from the Frio and San Miguel had drifted across to the Nueces.
• The cost of supporting so huge a body of refugees had really become a serious proposition and, as Colonel C.
• His mind was occupied by his scheme, which had never seemed so serious a matter as when he had started upon its fulfilment.
• The country might, it is true, have encountered this danger, serious as it would have been, if there had been hope that it would itself have agreed to any other choice.
• He knew that his work had been of a low grade, but never for a moment had he considered it as being at all serious.
• What to her was a very serious matter, was to him cause for amusement.

Similar words containing SERIOU without suffix s

seriously12 unserious9 nonserious10 jocoserious20 overserious14 seriousness11 unseriously14 ultraserious12 halfseriously22 overseriously19 seriousnesses13 unseriousness13 unseriousnesses15

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