Serious

Definition: Serious

Serious

Adjective

1. Concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!".

2. Of great consequence; "marriage is a serious matter".

3. Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia".

4. Appealing to the mind; "good music"; "a serious book".

5. Completely lacking in playfulness.

6. Requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve; "raised serious objections to the proposal"; "the plan has a serious flaw".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "serious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Serious

Dejection

Serious, sedate, staid, stayed; grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot; sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure; grim; grim-faced, grim-visaged; rueful, wan, long-faced.

Dullness

No joke, serious matter (importance).

Greatness

Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute).

Importance

Grave, serious, earnest, noble, grand, solemn, impressive, commanding, imposing.

Resolution

Earnest, serious; set upon, bent upon, intent upon.

Crosswords: Serious

Leo Solomon has serious concerns about my exploring a social, you know, scenario, with the President of the United States (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

I'm totally and completely serious. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

You were serious about dat (My Cousin Vinny; writing credit: Dale Launer.)

There's serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it's completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.)

Yeah, it was like a serious cackling (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez)

But it doesn't mean that I'm serious (Oops!... I Did It Again; performing artist: Britney Spears)

And I'm serious, never been more baby (Come On Over (All I Want Is You) (Radio Edit); performing artist: Christina Aguilera)

I’m serious when I tell you, love (Choose; performing artist: Color Me Badd)

Me and Kelly got some serious business (Jumpin', Jumpin' (So So Def Remix); performing artist: Destiny's Child)

Serious because we can't concentrate and get this right (Give It Up, Turn It Loose; performing artist: En Vogue)

I'm serious. It was a joke. (references; author: unknown)

You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard. (references; author: unknown)

Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)

Serious Charge (1959)

Bobby Bumps' World Serious (1917)

Serious Sixteen (1910)

You Cannot Be Serious (1999)

Let's Get Serious (performing artist: Jermaine Jackson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Oil Painting for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter (reference)

• You Cannot Be Serious (reference)

• Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner (reference)

• The pipe; a serious yet diverting treatise on the history of the pipe and all its appurtenances, as well as a factual withal philosophical discussion of the pleasurable art of selecting pipes, smoking, and caring for them (reference)

• Rod MacHado's Instrument Pilot's Survival Manual: Serious Book Written in a Fun Refreshing Style (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• David Bowie: Serious Moonlight (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Serious Fun [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

• Serious Hits ... Live! [LIVE] (reference)

• Serious Tam (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Serious CD-R Business Cardz (25-Pack) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Workers are shown wearing protective clothing to clean up chemical wastes abandoned in dumps. This is a serious environmental problem. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

A pregnant woman with syphilis can pass T. pallidum to her unborn child, who may be born with serious mental and physical problems as a result of this infection. When a newborn is affected it is known as “Congenital Syphilis”. Credit: CDC.

This is a photomicrograph of Clostridium botulinum stained with Gentian violet. The bacterium C. botulinum produces a nerve toxin, which causes the rare, but serious paralytic illness Botulism. Credit: CDC.

Horned pondweed - Zannichellia palustrus - growth usually peaks in June and begins covering the beaches. Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) provides food and habitat for a wide variety of biota, but has been in serious decline for the last several decades. Credit: America's Coastlines.

More serious reading at the main library. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. Sapelo Lighthouse, constructed in 1820, suffered serious damage during a hurricane in 1898. It was restored in 1998 to its present condition. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

In HYDROLAB's twenty years, no serious hyperbaric accidents occurred. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

These bendway weirs installed along the Spoon River in Peoria County, Illinois, help to slow down the fast-moving waters that can cause serious streambank erosion damage. Credit: Bob Nichols.

NRCS utilized gabion structures to prevent serious erosion in an urban area of Virginia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris, is a serious pest of alfalfa being grown for seed. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thenceforth, a serious political contest was altogether out of the question. (reference)

When American military men approach some serious situation they are wont to write at the head of their directive the words "over-all strategic concept." There is wisdom in this, as it leads to clarity of thought. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms--and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He thanked her with all his heart, and continued some time to speak with serious feeling of his gratitude and happiness

I have reserved, for the last, one or two rather more serious topics

But popular? Only in the sense that a serious accident on the motorway might be popular -- everyone slows down to have a good look, but no one will get too close to the flames

Or I might readily have found a more serious task

Never had the two ideas that governed the unfortunate man whose sufferings we are relating, engaged in so serious a struggle

He saw her serious alluring eyes watching him from among the audience and their image at once swept away his scruples, leaving his will compact

And his face was serious and responsible

It is only the serious eye peering from and the sincere life passed within it which restrain laughter and consecrate the costume of any people

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

NIHL is serious. (references)

Dysphagia can be serious. (references)

This is a serious condition. (references)

Business

The abduction of women is a serious problem. (references)

AIDS is considered the most serious worldwide health problem. (references)

Mobile phone handset smuggling has become a serious problem in China. (references)

Children

Philippines

Nevertheless, children faced serious problems. (references)

Malawi

Infant mortality is high, and child malnutrition is a serious problem. (references)

Malawi

Child prostitution occurs, but it is not considered a serious problem. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

Kidnapings and assaults remained serious threats. (references)

Mexico

The numerous attacks on journalists constituted the most serious problem for press freedom. (references)

Syria

Sulayman suffered a serious head wound that led to his hospitalization, although he subsequently recovered. (references)

Discrimination

Somalia

The Transitional Charter, adopted in 2000 but not implemented by year's end, contains provisions that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex and national origin; however, societal discrimination and violence against women and widespread abuse of children continued to be serious problems. (references)

Economic History

Ecuador

However, serious economic problems remain. (references)

Burma

Drug use and HIV/AIDS are serious problems. (references)

Human Rights

Equatorial Guinea

The level of these abuses is serious. (references)

Malaysia

Prison overcrowding is a serious problem. (references)

Yugoslavia

He suffered a concussion and other serious injuries. (references)

Indigenous People

Brazil

Illegal mining, logging, and ranching are serious problems on indigenous land. (references)

Guatemala

Indigenous people were the most common victims of extrajudicial killings and other serious human rights abuses during the internal conflict. (references)

Minorities

Slovak Republic

Two of the Roma were hospitalized with serious injuries. (references)

Political Economy

Angola

Impunity was a serious problem. (references)

Armenia

Emigration remained a serious problem. (references)

Syria

Their members commit serious human rights abuses. (references)

Political Rights

Malaysia

Legislation proposed by the opposition never is given serious consideration. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

Both parliamentary and presidential elections held in 2000 were marred by serious irregularities. (references)

Armenia

Serious breaches of the election law resulted in a lack of public confidence in the integrity of the overall election process. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

Several cantonal banks experienced serious problems during the mid 1990's as a result of sharp declines in the real estate market. (references)

Armenia

Newly emerging private companies, with a few exceptions, are too weak to provide serious financing for long term projects of their own. (references)

Mexico

Over the past 6 years the number of trade disruptions over standard matters has gradually decreased; however, some serious disruptions still occur. (references)

Travel

Lithuania

Food contamination is not a serious problem. (references)

Pakistan

The Islamabad/Rawalpindi area also experiences serious water shortages during summer months. (references)

Turkey

If discovered, individuals could be arrested for aiding and abetting the PKK-a serious charge. (references)

Women

Korea

Rape remained a serious problem. (references)

India

Dowry disputes also are a serious problem. (references)

China

A high female suicide rate is a serious problem. (references)

Worker Rights

Russia

Other more serious cases remain unresolved. (references)

China

Occupational health and safety remain serious problems. (references)

Zimbabwe

The strike caused serious disruption to the milling industry. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "serious": become more serious ♦ become serious ♦ dead serious ♦ get serious ♦ ha ha only serious ♦ make serious ♦ not serious ♦ nothing serious so far ♦ on serious reflection ♦ serious assault ♦ serious crime ♦ serious disturbance ♦ serious fault ♦ serious illness ♦ serious incident ♦ serious injury ♦ serious matter importance ♦ serious minded ♦ serious music ♦ serious transmissible disease ♦ serious trouble ♦ serious warning ♦ very serious. Additional references.

Beginning with "serious": serious-art, serious-faced, serious-looking, serious-minded, serious-mindedness, serious-money, serious-sounding.

Ending with "serious": half-serious, mock-serious, non-serious, over-serious, semi-serious.

Containing "serious": pretend-nothing-serious-has-happened.

Afrikaans

ernstig (important), erg (important), belangrik (important), benouend (airless, alarming, burdensome, grave, onerous, oppressive, stiffling, sultry). (various references)

Albanian

serioz (bad, crying, deep, demure, dress, earnest, grave, heavy, nasty, reliable, solemn, weighty), i rëndësishëm (capital, consequential, earnest, epoch making, eventful, front page, grave, important, imported, impressive, inflated, jack in office, mattery, mouth-filling, notable, noteworthy, responsible, sidy, significant, substantial, tidy), i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky, burdensome, cubbish, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, difficile, elephantine, grave, grievous, grinding, hard, heavy, hefty, incondite, knock about, leaden, lumping, massive, oafish, onerous, peremptory, plodding, ponderous, portly, set up, severe, solemn, stertorous, stodgy, tricky, unwieldy, wakeless, weighty). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏مهم (important, in the first flight, leading, main, paramount, remarkable, signify, sizable, substantial), ‏وقور (lordly, magisterial, proper, sedate, sober, solemn, staid, thoughtful), ‏ذو بال (important), ‏خطير (acute, critical, dangerous, eventful, grave, grievous, hazardous, heavy, important, irresistible, momentous, redoubtable, risky, risque, severe, significant, ticklish, unsafe, weighty), ‏جدي (businesslike, earnest, kid), ‏رزين (calm, demure, grave, level, level headed, matronly, portentous, sedate, sober, sober minded, staid, stoical), ‏رصين (calm, equable, equal, sedate, sober, sober minded, solemn, solid, staid, steady, thoughtful). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сериозен (earnest, grave, heavy, intent, prayerful, sad, sage, sedate, sober, solemn, somber, sombre, staid, steady, straight), важен (consequential, dignified, fatal, grave, importable, important, magisterial, major, material, mighty, necessitous, newsy, pompous, pontifical, portentous, prominent, sage, significant, solemn, sounding, staple, substantial, top-line, weighty), значителен (appreciable, considerable, goodly, handsome, important, major, marked, monumental, respectable, round, sensible, significant, smart, symbolic, symbolical, tidy). (various references)

Catalan

greu. (various references)

Chinese 

認真 (earnest, take seriously, take to heart), 重 (a layer, again, heavy, iteration, repetition, to double, to repeat), 鄭重 , 篤 (sincere, true), 嚴重 (critical, grave, severe), 嚴 (severe, stern, strict, tight), 沉重 (critical, hard, heavy), 正經 (according to standards, decent; proper), 岸然 (solemn), 严肃 (Austere, Austereness, Austerities, Austerity, severity, sombre). (various references)

Czech

seriózní (dependable, earnest, reliable, reputable, respectable), vážný (austere, dangerous, earnest, good, grave, major, mellow, pensive, portly, solemn, solid, stern, straight, strong, wistful), opravdový (authentic, earnest, genuine, real, sincere, undisguised, veritable), nároèný (arduous, challenging, demanding, discerning, discriminating, exacting, hard, severe, sophisticated, stiff). (various references)

Danish

vigtig (important), alvorlig (cheerful, earnest, gay, merry, staid). (various references)

Dutch

voornaam (aristocratic, Christian name, first name, important), ernstig (earnest, important, staid), erg (important, quite, very, very much). (various references)

Esperanto

serioza (earnest, staid), maltrankviliga (anxious, grave), grava (important). (various references)

Faeroese

týdningarmikil (important), álvarsamur (earnest, important, staid). (various references)

Farsi 

مهم (Chief, Considerable, Earthshaking, Epochal, Grand, Grave, Great, Head, Important, Main, Material, Momentous, Principal, Significant, Smacker, Substantial), وخیم (Critical, Crucial, Dire, Fatal, Tense), سخت (Adjacent, Chronic, Crusty, Demanding, Difficult, Dogged, Dour, Eburnated, Exquisite, Grave, Grim, Rigid, Rigorous, Rocky, Rugged, Severe, Sore, Steely, Stratify, Stringent, Strong, Troublesome), خطیر (Momentous), خطرناک (Calamitous, Disastrous, Dngerous, Grave, Herculean, Ill, Jeopardous, Malignant, Perilous, Venturesome), جدی (Bonafide, Demure, Drastic, Earnest, Energetic, Grand, Rigid, Sedate, Solemn, Stickler, Uncanny). (various references)

Finnish

vakava (earnest, firm, grave, stable, staid, steady). (various references)

French

grave (severe), sérieux (seriousness), important. (various references)

French Canadian

grave. (various references)

Frisian

earnstich (earnest, staid), danich (considerable, important, sizable), aardich (attractive, charming, important, lovely). (various references)

German

ernst (astringent, austere, earnest, earnestly, earnestness, firmly, grave, gravelly, gravely, gravity, heaviness, heavy, important, pensive, seriously, seriousness, severe, severeness, severity, sincere, sober, solemn, solemnity, solemnly, staid, stern, sternly, sternness, unsmiling), ernsthaft (considered, earnest, earnestly, genuine, grave, in earnest, seriously, sincere, sincerely, staid, wholehearted), seriös (quality, reliable, reputable, respectable, staid), erheblich (considerable, important, material, pertinent, relevant, severe, substantially, vastly). (various references)

Greek 

σπουδαίοσ (frabjous, grand, great, important, momentous, of note, significant), σοβαρόσ (burning, demure, earnest, grave, important, matronal, matronly, saturnine, sedate, sober, solemn, staid), σοβαρός (grievous, serious about, severe, solemn), αισθητόσ (observable, perceivable, perceptible, sensate, sensible, tangible). (various references)

Hebrew 

חמור (ass, austere, burro, critical, donkey, drastic, grave, jackass, moke, severe, stern, strict, stringent), רציני (deep, demure, earnest, grave, important, severe). (various references)

Hungarian

fontos (capital, important, main, major, memorabilia, memorable, momentous, of some account, ponderous, significant, stressful, substantial). (various references)

Icelandic

alvarlegur (earnest, staid). (various references)

Indonesian

serius, keberatsebelahan (hard, strong, weight), gawat (critical, dangerous, grave). (various references)

Italian

serio (earnest, grave, seriously, staid, steady, wholehearted), grave (bad, deep, earnest, grave, grievous, harsh, heavy, important, severe, solemn, unsmiling, weighty), importante (big, esentially, essential, grand, great, important, importent, key, momentous, notable, prominent, significant, signifying, vital, weighty). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

重い (heavy, important, massive, severe), 甚大 (enormous, very great), 甚だしい (excessive, extreme, heavy damage, intense, severe, terrible, tremendous). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せつじつ (acute, compelling, earnest, pressing, severe, urgent), はなはだしい (excessive, extreme, heavy, intense, severe, terrible, tremendous), じんだい (age of the gods, ancient time, enormous, very great), じゅうだい (grave, important, successive generations, teenage, the teens, the tenth generation, weighty), じゅうとく, けんあく (dangerous, gloomy, perilous, stormy, threatening), げん (bow string, chord, fundamental, handle, not to be touched, original, primary, primitive, raw, remark, statement, string, word), シリアス , とんだ (absolutely not, awful, preposterous, terrible), あつい (cordial, deep, faithful, hot, kind, thick, warm), ただならぬ (alarming, incomparable, unusual), まじめ (diligent, honest), ひどい (awful, cruel, heavy, severe, terrible, very bad, violent), しんみり (heart-to-heart, sad, solemn), しんこく (China under the Manchus, filing a return, formal complaint made by a victim, Japan, land of the gods, new grain, notification, report, statement), マジ , おもい (affection, desire, emotion, expectation, experience, feelings, heart, heavy, hope, imagination, important, love, massive, mind, oppressed, sentiment, severe, thought, wish), おもおもしい (dignified, exceedingly, frequently, grave, sincerely), おもたい (heavy, important, massive, oppressed, severe), ゆゆしい (alarming, grave). (various references)

Korean 

심각한. (various references)

Malay

penting (important). (various references)

Manx

trome-chooishagh (grave, important), smooinaghtagh (imaginable, notional, pensive, thinking, thoughtful). (various references)

Norwegian

alvorlig (earnest, grave, grievous, staid). (various references)

Papiamen

serio (earnest, staid), importante (important), grave (important). (various references)

Pig Latin

erioussay.(various references)

Polish

poważny (earnest, important, staid). (various references)

Portuguese

sério (abstemious, austere, convinced, demure, earnest, fair, important, respectable, sedate, severe, single-eyed, single-minded, sober, solemn, staid, stern, straight, straightaway, straightforward, temperate, thoughtful), sisudo (earnest, staid, stern, unsmiling), importante (big, capital, distinguish, golden, grand, grave, great, high, important, keynote, leading, momentous, necessary, ponderous, purposeful, relevant, significant, solemn, substantial, weighty), grave (earnest, engrave, grave, grievous, important, momentous, ponderous, portentous, severe, solemn, staid), categorizado (important). (various references)

Romanian

serios (appreciable, demure, earnest, earnestly, genuine, grave, gravely, grievously, important, in earnest, in good earnest, intimate, matronal, minded, reliable, sad, sedate, serious minded, seriously, seriousness, severe, sober, solemn, solid, staid, steady, stern, valid, weighty, well-conducted). (various references)

Russian 

серьезный (deep, earnest, grave, heavy, no-nonsense, severe), важный (consequential, donnish, earnest, first rate, grave, humungous, important, momentous, of consequence, of great moment, of importance, of significance, portentous, prancing, significant, substantial, weighty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svečan (declamatory, dressy, festal, festive, formal, gala, grave, solemn, state, stately), važan (consequential, imperative, important, material, momentous, pertinent, weighty), ozbiljan (earnest, earnestly, grave, major, momentous, severe, staid, stern). (various references)

Spanish

serio (businesslike, demure, dependable, earnest, heavy, meaningful, responsible, serious minded, severe, sober, sober minded, staid, thinking, thoughtful, unsmiling), importante (big, consequential, considerable, deferent, essential, great, important, important thing, large, leading, respectable, significant, sizable, sizeable, top, valuable, weighty), grave (acute, alarming, bad, court, courtyard, deep, demure, desperate, difficult, dignified, grave, grievous, grim, gross, heavy, important, low, lower, nasty, severe, weighty, yard), crítico (alarming, censor, censorious, critic, critical, grave, knocker, reviewer, vital). (various references)

Swahili

-kubwa (big, great, important, large), kubwa (big, great, important, large). (various references)

Swedish

allvarlig (austere, earnest, grave, major, severe, staid, weighty), seriös, rejäl (glorious, good, honest, sure). (various references)

Tagalog

mahalagá (important). (various references)

Turkish

ciddi (austere, businesslike, capital, critical, demure, devout, earnest, eventful, forbidding, grave, gut, important, momentous, mortally, sedate, sober, sober minded, solemn, staid, starched, unsmiling), şakaya gelmeyen, ağirbaxli (earnest, important, staid), ağir (abusive, important, insulting, light, nasty, offensive, slow), ağırbaşlı (austere, calm, demure, dignified, earnest, graceful, grand, imperturbable, matronly, only, sage, sedate, sober, sober minded, solemn, staid), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty), önemli (big, big time, capital, consequential, considerable, emphatic, emphatical, eventful, fateful, grand, grave, great, gut, healthy, heavy, high, historic, historical, important, leading, major, momentous, noteworthy, of importance, of note, of weight, prominent, respectable, significant, smart, solemn, star, substantial, top-line, urgent, weighty, worthy). (various references)

Turkmen 

salyhatly, ymykly (definitive), goяazy. (various references)

Ukrainian

серйозний (deep, demure, earnest, serious minded, solemn), важливий (big, consequential, considerable, earnest, grand, grave, important, influential, interesting, momentous, newsworthy, purposeful, weighty), небезпечний (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, chanceful, climacteric, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, insecure, nasty, parlous, perilous, redoubtable, redoubted, thorny, uncanny, unsafe, virulent, wicked). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trầm trọng (gravely, seriously), thật sự (actual, effective, regular, strict), quan trọng (important, leading), nghiêm trang (demure, matronal, matronlike, matronly), nghiêm nghị hệ trọng, nặng đáng sợ, không thể coi thường được; nghiêm trọng, đứng đắn (decently, earnest, seriously), đáng gờm thành thật. (various references)

Welsh

sobr (abstemious, abstinent, sober), prysur (busy, diligent, hasty), prudd (grave, sad, wise), o ddifrif, difrifol (earnest, grave, solemn). (various references)

Yucatec

k'ana'an (important, necessary). (various references)

Zulu

-phakeme (correct, important, right). (various references)

gravis. (various references)

geomormod. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "serious": seriously, seriousness, seriousnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "serious": nonserious, overserious, ultraserious, unserious. (additional references)

Words containing "serious": overseriously, unseriousness, unseriousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Serious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: derious, eryou, eserious, Kerasous, perious, Saracouu, sarious, sarouk, Sarouks, seerius, sefious, seious, Seirios, Seiroku, Selinous, sepioids, sererus, serio, seriou, serioud, serius, serouis, Serreau, serrious, sexious, sirous, slerious, sorous, sperious, surious, syriacus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: issuer, osiers, rouses, seisor, serous, sieurs.

-2 letters: euros, issue, osier, ourie, rises, risus, roses, roues, rouse, ruses, sieur, sires, sores, sorus, sours, souse, suers, users.

-3 letters: eros, euro, ires, ores, oses, ours, reis, rise, roes, rose, roue, rues, ruse, seis, sers, sire, sirs, sore, sori, sour, sous, sris, suer, sues, sure, user, uses.

+1 letter: desirous, griseous, neurosis, resinous, soilures.

+2 letters: arsenious, coinsures, diestrous, discourse, disposure, misroutes, moistures, nourishes, ossuaries, outraises, outsiders, overissue, sautoires, savouries, sensorium, sericeous, seriously, sourdines, souvenirs, subsoiler, succories, superiors, troiluses, turkoises, unserious.

+3 letters: authorises, birdhouses, bistouries, boisterous, censorious, coinsurers, commissure, costumiers, courtesies, courtsides, cousinries, curiousest, desirously, disclosure, discoursed, discourser, discourses, disposures, excursions, extrusions, firehouses, flourishes, impostures, inclosures, kurtosises, microbuses, moisturise, mysterious, nonserious, nourishers, outstrides, overissued, overissues, oxyuriases, percussion, perfusions, persuasion, plesiosaur, poxviruses, preciouses, prelusions, proustites, proviruses, reclusions, recursions, reoviruses, repulsions, revulsions, rhizopuses, roisterous, rugosities, savouriest, semigroups, sensoriums, serotinous, sobriquets, squooshier, strikeouts, subeditors, submersion, subperiods, subregions, subsoilers, subversion, sudatories, supercoils, supersonic, supervisor, turquoises, urokinases, uroscopies, vitreouses, voyeurisms.