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Synonyms of the word 
SERIOUS → CRITICAL - DANGEROUS - DIFFICULT - EARNEST - GOOD - GRAVE - GRIEVOUS - HARD - IMPORTANT - INTELLECTUAL - LIFE-THREATENING - OVERSERIOUS - REAL - SEDATE - SERIOUS-MINDED - SEVERE - SINCERE - SOBER - SOBERING - SOLEMN - SOLID - THOUGHTFUL - UNPLAYFULserious- adj. Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition; earnest; solemn.
- adj. Important; weighty; not insignificant.
- adj. Really intending what is said; in earnest; not jocular or deceiving.
critical- adj. Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
- adj. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- adj. Extremely important.
- adj. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- adj. (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition…
- adj. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- adj. Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes…
- n. A critical value, factor, etc.
- n. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.
dangerous- adj. Full of danger.
- adj. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
- adj. (colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
- adj. (obsolete) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
- adj. (obsolete) Reserved; not affable.
difficult- adj. Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
- adj. (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
- adj. (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
earnest- n. Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.
- n. Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence).
- v. (transitive) To be serious with; use in earnest.
- adj. Serious in speech or action; eager; urgent; importunate; pressing; instant.
- adj. (with a positive sense) Focused in the pursuit of an objective; eager to obtain or do.
- adj. Intent; fixed closely.
- adj. Possessing or characterised by seriousness; strongly bent; intent.
- adj. Strenuous; diligent.
- adj. Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; not trifling or feigned; important.
- n. A sum of money paid in advance as a deposit; hence, a pledge, a guarantee, an indication of something…
- v. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of earn.
good- adj. (of people).
- adj. (of capabilities).
- adj. (of properties and qualities).
- adj. (colloquial) With "and", extremely.
- adj. Holy (especially when capitalized).
- adj. (of quantities).
- interj. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
- adv. (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
- n. (uncountable) The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and…
- n. (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
- n. (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes…
- n. (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
- v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make good; turn to good; improve.
- v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make improvements or repairs.
- v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To benefit; gain.
- v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
- v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
- v. (reflexive, now chiefly dialectal) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
- v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
grave- n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- n. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
- n. death, destruction.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
- v. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it…
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice…
- adj. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
- adj. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
- adj. Low in pitch, tone etc.
- adj. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
- n. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
grievous- adj. Causing grief, pain or sorrow.
- adj. Serious, grave, dire or dangerous.
hard- adj. (of material or fluid) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
- adj. (personal or social) Having a severe property; presenting difficulty.
- adj. Unquestionable.
- adj. (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
- adj. (slang, vulgar, of a male) Sexually aroused.
- adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
- adj. (phonetics, not comparable).
- adj. (art) Having a severe property; presenting a barrier to enjoyment.
- adj. (not comparable) In the form of a hard copy.
- adv. (manner) With much force or effort.
- adv. (manner) With difficulty.
- adv. (obsolete) So as to raise difficulties.
- adv. (manner) Compactly.
- adv. (now archaic) Near, close.
- n. (countable, nautical) A firm or paved beach or slope convenient for hauling vessels out of the water.
- n. (uncountable, drugs, colloquial, slang) crack cocaine.
important- adj. Having relevant and crucial value.
intellectual- adj. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities,…
- adj. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge…
- adj. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by…
- adj. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental"…
- adj. (archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
- n. An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
- n. (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
life-threatening- adj. Endangering the continued life of the subject.
overserious- adj. Excessively serious.
real- adj. True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
- adj. Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.
- adj. Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.
- adj. Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.
- adj. That has objective, physical existence.
- adj. (economics) Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power (contrast…
- adj. (economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic…
- adj. (mathematics, of a number) Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence…
- adj. (law) Relating to immovable tangible property.
- adj. Absolute, complete, utter.
- adj. (slang) Signifying meritorious qualities or actions especially as regard the enjoyment of life, prowess…
- adv. (US, colloquial) Really, very.
- n. A commodity; see realty.
- n. (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
- n. (mathematics) A real number.
- n. (obsolete) A realist.
- n. Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
- n. A coin worth one real.
- n. A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until…
- n. A coin worth one real.
- n. A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: R$.
- n. A coin worth one real.
sedate- adj. in a composed and temperate state.
- v. to tranquilize by giving a sedative; to calm; to soothe; to induce sleep.
serious-mindedsevere- adj. Very bad or intense.
- adj. Strict or harsh.
- adj. Sober, plain in appearance, austere.
sincere- adj. Genuine; meaning what one says or does; heartfelt.
- adj. Meant truly or earnestly.
sober- adj. not drunk; not intoxicated.
- adj. not given to excessive drinking of alcohol.
- adj. moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled.
- adj. dull; not bright or colorful.
- adj. subdued; solemn; grave.
- v. (often with up) To make or become sober.
- v. (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.
sobering- adj. Causing more sober thought or concern.
- v. present participle of sober.
solemn- adj. Deeply serious and somber.
- adj. Somberly impressive.
- adj. Performed with great ceremony.
- adj. Sacred.
- adj. Gloomy or sombre.
solid- adj. An item that can be grabbed, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid or a gas.
- adj. Large, massive.
- adj. Lacking holes or hollows; as solid gold, solid chocolate.
- adj. Strong or unyielding.
- adj. (slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
- adj. Hearty; filling.
- adj. Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
- adj. Sound; not weakly.
- adj. (typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
- adj. (printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
- adj. (US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.
- adj. Of a single color throughout.
- adj. (dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.
- n. (chemistry) A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need…
- n. (geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
- n. (informal) A favor.
- n. An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
- n. (in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.
- adv. Solidly.
- adv. (not comparable, typography) Without spaces or hyphens.
thoughtful- adj. Demonstrating thought or careful consideration.
- adj. Demonstrating kindness or consideration for others.
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