Serious definition
Serious is an adjective meaning "concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities." It has 6 meanings, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Syllables
- 3
- Letters
- 7
- How common
- Everyday word
Serious as an adjective
concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities
"a serious student of history"
of great consequence
"marriage is a serious matter"
causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
"a serious wound"
Same sense: dangerous, severe, grave, life-threatening, grievous
appealing to the mind
"a serious book"
Same sense: good
completely lacking in playfulness
Same sense: sober, unplayful
requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve
"raised serious objections to the proposal"
Synonyms and antonyms
- dangerous
- severe
- grave
- life-threatening
- grievous
- good definition
- sober
- unplayful
Opposite: frivolous.
How to say serious
Serious has 3 syllables and rhymes with mysterious. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with serious
- mysterious
- delirious
- deleterious
- imperious
SERIOUS in word games
- Scrabble
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Anagrams
- 0
Is SERIOUS a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check SERIOUS in the word checker, or unscramble SERIOUS to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.