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"a serious book"adjectiveappealing to the mind
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adjectivecompletely lacking in playfulness
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"a serious wound" "a serious turn of events"adjectivecausing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
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"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!"adjectiveconcerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities
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"marriage is a serious matter"adjectiveof great consequence
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"raised serious objections to the proposal" "the plan has a serious flaw"adjectiverequiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve
Definition that contains serious
- exhaustion serious weakening and loss of energy
- typhoid serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water
- chamber music serious music performed by a small group of musicians
- childbed fever serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon
- migratory grasshopper serious pest of grain-growing and range areas of central and western United States
- puerperal fever serious form of septicemia contracted by a woman during childbirth or abortion (usually attributable to unsanitary conditions); formerly widespread but now uncommon
- enteric fever serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water
- pink disease serious bark disease of many tropical crop trees (coffee, citrus, rubber); branches have a covering of pink hyphae
- deep water serious trouble
- debilitation serious weakening and loss of energy