Seriously

Definition: Seriously

Seriously

Adverb

1. In a serious manner; "talking earnestly with his son"; "she started studying snakes in earnest"; "a play dealing seriously with the question of divorce".

2. To a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill".

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

Date "seriously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Seriously

Affirmation

As God is my witness, I must say, indeed, i' faith, let me tell you, why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, I'd have you to know; upon my word, upon my honor; by my troth, egad, I assure you; by jingo, by Jove, by George; troth, seriously, sadly; in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in earnest; of a truth, truly, perdy, in all conscience, upon oath; be assured; (belief); yes; (assent); I'll warrant, I'll warrant you, I'll engage, I'll answer for it, I'll be bound, I'll venture to say, I'll take my oath; in fact, forsooth, joking apart; so help me God; not to mince the matter.

Greatness

Adverb: truly; (truth); decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience; for the most part, in the main.

Resolution

Adverb: resolutely; Adjective: in earnest, in good earnest; seriously, joking apart, earnestly, heart and soul; on one's mettle; manfully, like a man, with a high hand; with a strong hand; (exertion).

Crosswords: Seriously

Never take it seriously, you never get hurt (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

But seriously, that'll all be covered in the orientation (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

Man, we gotta talk seriously. Who do you think you are, Clint Eastwood (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs)

You did not seriously think that a hobbit could contend with the will of Sauron, there are none that can. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

I seriously doubt he's getting this kind of mileage (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter)

Seriously thinking about spirituality and you wouldn't let me get away with (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

No one should take themselves so seriously (What's My Age Again?; performing artist: Blink-182)

You been seriously misled (Misled; performing artist: Celine Dion)

And now I live, seriously and protected (After All Is Said And Done; performing artist: Nelson)

It is our responsibility, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. (references; author: unknown)

As a man begins to live more seriously within, he begins to live more simply without. (references; author: unknown)

Life lesson: No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. (references; author: unknown)

It is impossible to overestimate the immense need that humans have to be listened to, understood, and taken seriously. (references; author: unknown)

They Wouldn't Take Him Seriously (1916)

Seriously Weird (2002)

Folks But Seriously (1986)

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

Books

• Belter's Book of Comedy Songs: 32 Seriously Funny Songs for Theatre Singers (reference)

• Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Taking Rights Seriously (reference)

• The Big Book of Bible Skits: 104 Seriously Funny Bible Teaching Skits (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health (reference)

• But Seriously (reference)

• Phil Collins: Seriously Live (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• But Seriously (reference)

• But Seriously Folks (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Listeria monocytogenes is the infectious agent responsible for the food borne illness Listeriosis. In the United States, an estimated 2,500 persons become seriously ill with listeriosis each year. Of these, 500 die. Credit: CDC.

Snarled anchor cable and current meter cables Sometimes things go seriously wrong Current studies in SE Alaska. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Seriously stuck in the sand Triangulation party of Percy L. Bernstein. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"Fooling around" - Cornelius Meaney staging fight - sometimes this was for real In 1941 a C&GS officer was seriously wounded by a bolo-wielding juramentado Occasionally Christian crewman from North would disappear in the Muslim South. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

East Timbalier Island, booms are placed to contain oil. The island was seriously impacted by Hurricane Andrew, after the oil blow out restoration plans included creating marshes near the breaks in the island to stabilize the island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

If you take it, take it seriously. : Tips Against Tampering. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Underway in Chesapeake Bay, 29 July 1967, upon her return from the Mediterranean Sea. She had been attacked and seriously damaged by Israeli air and surface forces while operating off the Sinai Peninsula on 8 June 1967, during the "Six-Day War", and was subsequently repaired at Malta. Credit: NAVY.

Marines in combat. Fire in this fighter plane was quickly extinguished by Marines at the Guadalcanal airport after a Japanese bomb hit the hangar shown in the background. The plane was not seriously damaged. Credit: Library of Congress.

Another preparedness measure that society is taking up seriously. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Such designs as these (says he) when any king harbours in his thoughts and seriously promotes, he immediately gives up all care and thought of the common-wealth; so that, according to him, the neglect of the public good is to be taken as an evidence of such design, or at least for a sufficient cause of resistance. (Second Treatise of Government)

This is the last word and the only seriously meant word of bourgeois Socialism. (reference)

In Italy the Communist Party is seriously hampered by having to support the Communist-trained Marshal Tito's claims to former Italian territory at the head of the Adriatic. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And, seriously, Miss Fairfax is naturally so pale, as almost always to give the appearance of ill health

He'd never seriously believed it existed anyway

The little girl, taking this seriously, began to sob again beautifully

He often wondered what his granduncle prayed for so seriously.

Half a dozen children played seriously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Concerns about social development should also be taken very seriously. (references)

It can leave individuals seriously disabled and confined to a wheelchair. (references)

But if your kidneys are not seriously damaged, acute renal failure may be reversed. (references)

Business

The retail sector is seriously underdeveloped and is in fact totally dominated by the state-owned banks. (references)

Uzbek currency is not fully convertible, the situation that seriously hampers foreign trade/imports to Uzbekistan. (references)

Licensing of leasing activities has seriously impeded the process of foreign capital inflow into the local market. (references)

Children

Liberia

Young persons were victimized seriously during the civil war. (references)

Pakistan

Health care services, like education, remained seriously inadequate for the nation's children. (references)

Hungary

Of these persons, 300,000 to 350,000 were considered seriously disabled and receive increased government benefits. (references)

Civil Liberties

Paraguay

Five teachers were injured, one seriously. (references)

El Salvador

Demonstrators injured three police officers--one seriously. (references)

Thailand

The villagers seriously injured 4 protesters and burned more than 500 temporary shelters. (references)

Discrimination

Mexico

The consensus among gay rights groups is that the police fail to investigate these crimes seriously. (references)

Economic History

Belize

A lack of government resources seriously hampers these goals. (references)

Honduras

No one was killed, but several individuals were seriously injured. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

Approximately 30 persons were injured, some seriously. (references)

Sri Lanka

Her nephew, who was with her at the time, was injured seriously. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Some prisons are seriously overcrowded, most frequently in urban areas. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

On June 30, four skinheads assaulted a group of Roma in Ostrava, injuring two of them seriously. (references)

Tanzania

In August there were clashes between farmers and Maasai pastoralists in Mangae, Morogoro Region, in which six farmers were injured seriously. (references)

Georgia

On April 30, a group of "Basilists" attacked a prayer group of Jehovah's Witnesses in Tbilisi with clubs spiked with nails, burned literature, smashed windows and furniture, and seriously injured three persons. (references)

Political Economy

South Africa

Prisons are seriously overcrowded, and prison employees and other prisoners abused prisoners. (references)

Guatemala

The leader of the NGO was attacked and seriously injured within several weeks of filing the suit. (references)

Tajikistan

Rahmonov won reelection in a 1999 election that was flawed seriously and was neither free nor fair. (references)

Political Rights

Equatorial Guinea

International observers considered the legislative election process to be seriously flawed. (references)

Singapore

As a result of these and other factors, opposition parties have been unable to challenge seriously the PAP's domination of the political system. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The percentage of women in government or politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population, and in the three legislatures, women were underrepresented seriously. (references)

Trade

Hungary

This seriously affects the cost competitiveness of certain U.S. products. (references)

Russia

Throughout the 1990s, capital flight of immense proportions plagued and seriously weakened the Russian economy. (references)

Travel

Ireland

Furthermore, U.S. exporters should seriously consider warehousing in Ireland for expeditious supply and service for customers. (references)

Women

Samoa

Rape cases that reach the courts are treated seriously. (references)

Malawi

Society has begun to take the problem of violence against women seriously. (references)

Russia

There also is no national political will to consider these problems seriously. (references)

Worker Rights

Bangladesh

Sometimes children are seriously injured or killed in workplaces. (references)

Russia

Law enforcement bodies take the trafficking of children more seriously. (references)

India

However, as awareness grows, the courts have begun to take work-related illnesses more seriously. (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 "seriously": he takes things too seriously ♦ not to take seriously ♦ seriously ill ♦ seriously ill patient ♦ seriously sick ♦ seriously wounded ♦ take seriously ♦ take up seriously ♦ very seriously ill. Additional references.

Beginning with "seriously": seriously-affected, seriously-ill, seriously-injured, seriously-minded, seriously-no.

Ending with "seriously": half-seriously.

Albanian

seriozisht (earnestly, fatally, hard, in earnest, reliably). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جديا (earnestly, in earnest), ‏بخطورة (sorely), ‏بجدية (dead earnest, industriously), ‏بجد (earnestly), ‏برصانة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

вземам на сериозно (take seriously). (various references)

Chinese 

慘 (badly, cruel, inhuman, miserable, tragic, wretched), 严重. (various references)

Czech

vážnì (badly, earnestly, gravelly, in earnest, really, severely). (various references)

Danish

svært invalideret (seriously disabled person), svært handicappet (seriously handicapped person), vanskeligt stillet landdistrikt (seriously depressed rural area), region med industrier i tilbagegang (region seriously affected by industrial decline), pensionstillæg til svært invalide (pension supplement for the seriously disabled), omraader,der er alvorligt beroert af politiske forhold (areas seriously affected by political circumstances), multitraumatiseret patient (seriously injured patient), meget alvorligt tilfælde (very seriously ill), haardt saaret person (seriously injured patient, seriously wounded), de alvorligst berørte lande (most seriously affected countries, MSA-Country), begrundet mistanke om uregelmaessigheder (irregularities are seriously suspected), alvorligt tilfælde (seriously ill), alvorligt syg (seriously ill). (various references)

Dutch

zwaar gewonde (seriously injured patient), MSA-land (most seriously affected countries, MSA-Country), MSA landen (most seriously affected countries, MSA-Country), kwetsbaar plattelandsgebied (seriously depressed rural area), ernstig vermoeden van onregelmatigheid (irregularities are seriously suspected), ernstig door achteruitgang getroffen industriegebied (region seriously affected by industrial decline), door politieke omstandigheden ernstig benadeelde streken (areas seriously affected by political circumstances), aanvullend pensioen voor ernstig invaliden (pension supplement for the seriously disabled). (various references)

Finnish

vakavasti, vaikeasti (badly, with difficulty). (various references)

French

sérieusement, séreux (serious), gravement (severely), avec sérieux. (various references)

German

ernst (astringent, austere, earnest, earnestly, earnestness, firmly, grave, gravelly, gravely, gravity, heaviness, heavy, important, pensive, serious, seriousness, severe, severeness, severity, sincere, sober, solemn, solemnity, solemnly, staid, stern, sternly, sternness, unsmiling). (various references)

Greek 

σοβαρά (by jingo, solemnly). (various references)

Hebrew 

ברצינות (in earnest, solemnly). (various references)

Hungarian

komolyan (bona fide, earnestly, gravely, in earnest, severely, sincerely, sore, sternly, thoughtfully). (various references)

Indonesian

benar-benar (actually, real, veritable). (various references)

Italian

serio (earnest, grave, serious, staid, steady, wholehearted), gravemente (severely, sorely). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

沁み沁みと (earnestly, fully, heartily, keenly), 冗談抜き (joking aside). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しみじみと (earnestly, fully, heartily, keenly), じょうだんぬき (joking aside). (various references)

Korean 

심각하게. (various references)

Manx

trome-ching (seriously ill), guint dy trome (seriously wounded), dy creaughey (to wound seriously), creaughey (hurt seriously). (various references)

Pig Latin

eriouslysay.(various references)

Portuguese

suplemento de pensão de grande inválido (pension supplement for the seriously disabled), zona rural frágil (seriously depressed rural area), regiões gravemente afectadas por circunstâncias políticas (areas seriously affected by political circumstances), região gravemente afectada pelo declínio industrial (region seriously affected by industrial decline), grande inválido (seriously disabled person), grande incapacitado (seriously handicapped person), grande deficiente (seriously handicapped person). (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, serious minded, seriousness, severe, sober, solemn, solid, staid, steady, stern, valid, weighty, well-conducted), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), aşezat (reliable, seated, sedate, serious, situated, sober, sober minded, staid, steady, wise). (various references)

Russian 

серьезно (in earnest). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svečano, važno (important), ozbiljno (earnest: in earnest, earnestly, gravely, sternly, thoughtfully). (various references)

Spanish

seriamente (earnestly, thoughtfully). (various references)

Swedish

allvarligt (severely). (various references)

Turkish

ciddi olarak (critically, in earnest, severely), cidden (for real, in earnest, indeed, momentously, real, really, right, yes indeed), ağır şekilde (grossly, heavily, heavy), 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, serious minded, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty). (various references)

Turkmen 

зynlakaя (in earnest). (various references)

Ukrainian

серйозно (capitally, deeply, gravely, in earnest, profoundly), небезпечно (dangerously). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trầm trọng (gravely, serious), nghiêm trang nghiêm trọng, nặng thật sự, không đùa (dead), đứng đắn (decently, earnest, serious). (various references)

graviter, serio. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words ending with "seriously": overseriously. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Seriously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: resinously, seiously, seriosly, seriosuly, seriouly, seriousaly. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: soilures.

-2 letters: elusory, lorises, lousier, rissole, serious, soilure.

-3 letters: issuer, lessor, lories, losers, louies, louses, oilers, oriels, osiers, ousels, reoils, rosily, rouses, seisor, serous, sieurs, soleus, sorels, sorely, sourly, surely.

-4 letters: euros, ileus, isles, issue, liers, lieus, loess, lores, loris, loser, loses, lossy, louie, louis, lours, loury, louse, lousy, lures, lyres, lyses, lysis, oiler.

+1 letter: desirously.

+2 letters: pyrolusites.

+3 letters: boisterously, censoriously, multisensory, mysteriously, roisterously.

+4 letters: overseriously, perspicuously, pestiferously, prestigiously, serpiginously, superlobbyist, superloyalist.

+5 letters: discourteously, hyaluronidases, polyneuritises, preconsciously, sacrilegiously, superciliously, superlobbyists, superloyalists, supersonically, unresponsively.