Serious

What do we mean by serious?

Careful in thought, full of concern, or restrained and dignified in manner; somber or grave. adjective

Requiring or carried out with careful thought or concern. adjective

Intended for sophisticated people. adjective

Deeply interested or involved. adjective

Concerned with important rather than trivial matters. adjective

Not joking or trifling. adjective

Of considerable size or scope; substantial. adjective

Being of such import as to cause anxiety. adjective

Not easily answered or solved. adjective

Grave in feeling, manner, or disposition; solemn; earnest; not light, gay, or volatile; of things, springing from, expressing, or inducing gravity or earnestness of feeling.

In earnest; not jesting or making pretense.

Important; weighty; not trifling.

Attended with danger; giving rise to apprehension: as, a serious illness.

Deeply impressed with the importance of religion; making profession of or pretension to religion.

Synonyms Solemn, etc. See grave.

1 and Sedate, staid, sober, earnest.

Great, momentous.

Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition

Important; weighty; not insignificant

Really intending what is said (or planned, etc); in earnest; not jocular or deceiving

(of a relationship) Committed.

Words that are spelled similarly to serious:
serious, serous, semious, serinus, aerious, serrous, serios.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word serious:
disparity, injuries, injury, knee, contender, adverse, illness, consequences, threat, crimes, harm, taxation, accident, complications, consideration, damage, problems, problem, incidents, blow, trouble, fraud, difficulties, crime, danger, threats, concern, infection, tone, concerns, condition, crash, diseases.

Words that rhyme with serious:
deleterious, imperious, mysterious, delirious, cereus, nereus, tereus, nereis, weary us.

Adjectives that are often used to describe serious:
more, how, very, non, most, get, getting, dead, less, some.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective serious:
problem, problems, consideration, consequences, illness, matter, injury, difficulties, trouble, threat, attention, damage, effects, business, attempt, disease, study, question, complications, questions, difficulty, thought, concern, danger, loss, effort, cases, nature, error, doubts, mistake, crimes, challenge, obstacle, injuries, crime, condition, objection, discussion, implications, crisis, errors, accident, harm, complication, risk, issues, efforts, situation, student, opposition, objections, matters, obstacles, diseases, blow, conflict, issue, doubt, limitations, infections, defects, disadvantage, attempts, criticism, defect, losses, attack, disturbances, drawback, accidents, tone, charge, illnesses, handicap, purpose, disorders, concerns, symptoms, face, look, shortage, infection, disturbance, mistakes, students, limitation, thoughts, charges, offenses.

Consonant match to serious:
sirius, cereus, cereous.

Words that sound like serious:
serious, sirius, cereus, cereous, syria, cirrus, sirus, seria, siria, seriphus, stirious, citreous, cervus, siris, scarious, saras, seeress, ceras, serie a, series, cyrus, spurious, saurus, syrian, cyrix, cereals, ceres, serio, s.o.s, sorriest, syrians, sorus, serials, soria, sorriness, sarus, sauria, sarcous, cirio, sirion, sardius, cereo, suras, syrien, sargus, serres, cerris, cheerios, nereus, sarvis, virius, cerium, cerritos, soares, sardis, souris, sarahs, sarkis, sarris, sargis, harry hess, serax, serrates, seriate, soris, spurius, service, servus, sericeous, circus, cereal, citrus, cerial, cerise, cierra, marius, ciera, cere, assyria, carious, saris, ceara, cytherea, cerea, saurian, citrous, cicis, sanious, ceris, saros, cilice, ceus, cirrhus, cissus, cirri, cinereous, saururus, cypriots, cymose, asterius.