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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... dogged the great naturalist. The relations between him and Daubenton had grown acute, and the latter, unwilling any longer to put up with Buffon's love of vainglory, withdrew from the enterprise to which his co-operation had imparted so much value. Serious illness, also, and the death of Buffon's wife, caused a long suspension of his labours, which were, however, lightened by the assistance ...

— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

... day. The thistle-down clouds opened now and then to shake out a delicate, brilliant little shower that ceased in a trice, and the sun smiled through the light veil of rain, turning every falling drop to a jewel. It was as if the fairies were busy at aerial watering-pots, without any more serious purpose than to amuse themselves and make the earth beautiful; and we realised that Irish rain is as warm as an Irish welcome, and soft as ...

— Penelope's Irish Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... very pale, and her lofty, thoughtful brow wore a serious expression from infancy. In our wildest revels on the green sward, you seldom heard Margaret laugh; but when pleased, she had a most bewitching smile, which lighted up her calm countenance till every ...

— The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I • Susanna Moodie

... when a very inferior article will be equally acceptable? Why go as deep into a question as Burke, only in order to be, like Burke, coughed down, or left speaking to green benches and red boxes? This has long appeared to us to be the most serious of the evils which are to be set off against the many blessings of popular government. It is a fine and true saying of Bacon, that reading makes a full man, talking a ready man, and writing an exact ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... the most serious accident of all had befallen Princess Sakareen, whose left leg had broken short off at the knee. Twinkle ran up to her as soon as she could, and found the Princess smiling happily and gazing at the part of the broken leg ...

— Twinkle and Chubbins - Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland • L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

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