serious
严重,严肃的,严肃,严重的
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Definitions
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- : of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- : of grave or somber disposition, character, or manner: a serious occasion; a serious man.
- : being in earnest; sincere; not trifling: His interest was serious.
- : requiring thought, concentration, or application: serious reading; a serious task.
- : weighty or important: a serious book; Marriage is a serious matter.
- : giving cause for apprehension; critical: The plan has one serious flaw.
- : Medicine/Medical. having unstable or otherwise abnormal vital signs and other unfavorable indicators, as loss of appetite and poor mobility: patient is acutely ill.
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- : that which is of importance, grave, critical, or somber: You have to learn to separate the serious from the frivolous.
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Examples
The pulps brought new readers to serious fiction, making it less intimidating with alluring art and low prices.
I like the idea of Jon Hamm… There have been discussions—though I'm not sure how serious they've been.
Whatever the reason, and however absurd their beliefs may seem, American evangelicals are deadly serious.
He said it was okay, that he had been busy too… busy fighting serious intestinal problems.
The “nature of the crime” was too serious to release him, they said.
Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.
It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.
Between South and North, the probabilities of a serious, and no very distant rupture, are strong and manifest.
Never then was there a moment in which there was greater need for sane and serious thought.
Though the amount played for is serious, a good deal of rather bald conversation and chaff goes on.