Serious синонимы на английском

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1. seriousadjective

   Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving; meaningful.

   After all these years, we’re finally getting serious attention.

   Antonyms:
   jesting

2. seriousadjective

   Antonyms:
   trifling, unimportant

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. serious

   Synonyms:
   grave, thoughtful, careful, earnest, solemn, important, weighty

   Antonyms:
   volatile, gay, thoughtless, careless, joking, jocose, insignificant, unimportant, trifling, trivial, light

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. seriousadjective

   concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities

   «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!»

   Synonyms:
   unplayful, severe, grave, good, life-threatening, sober, dangerous, grievous

   Antonyms:
   flighty, trivial, scatterbrained, light, lightheaded, light-headed, empty-headed, head-in-the-clouds, noncritical, silly, dizzy, flippant, flyaway, featherbrained, noncrucial, airheaded, frivolous, giddy, nonintellectual, easy, light-minded, unimportant, idle

2. seriousadjective

   of great consequence

   «marriage is a serious matter»

   Synonyms:
   unplayful, severe, grave, good, life-threatening, sober, dangerous, grievous

   Antonyms:
   dizzy, light, light-headed, empty-headed, flyaway, scatterbrained, giddy, lightheaded, head-in-the-clouds, nonintellectual, unimportant, flighty, light-minded, idle, flippant, airheaded, featherbrained, silly, trivial, noncrucial, easy, noncritical, frivolous

3. dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threateningadjective

   causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

   «a dangerous operation»; «a grave situation»; «a grave illness»; «grievous bodily harm»; «a serious wound»; «a serious turn of events»; «a severe case of pneumonia»; «a life-threatening disease»

   Synonyms:
   severe, sober, wicked, stark, unsafe, terrible, hard, spartan, stern, heavy, unplayful, weighty, monstrous, grave, good, grievous, atrocious, sedate, flagitious, life-threatening, dangerous, knockout, austere, heartbreaking, heartrending, solemn

   Antonyms:
   light-headed, empty-headed, giddy, lightheaded, featherbrained, easy, dizzy, airheaded, flighty, flyaway, noncritical, head-in-the-clouds, trivial, frivolous, silly, unimportant, noncrucial, light, nonintellectual, flippant, light-minded, scatterbrained, idle

4. good, seriousadjective

   appealing to the mind

   «good music»; «a serious book»

   Synonyms:
   dear, good, beneficial, unplayful, in effect(p), unspoiled, skillful, sound, secure, effective, severe, upright, salutary, in force(p), skilful, practiced, dependable, estimable, life-threatening, grievous, expert, just, grave, dangerous, sober, proficient, full, honest, respectable, undecomposed, unspoilt, ripe, safe, adept, honorable, well(p), right, near

   Antonyms:
   flighty, featherbrained, light-minded, scatterbrained, dizzy, flyaway, flippant, empty-headed, easy, noncritical, idle, airheaded, silly, noncrucial, lightheaded, light, head-in-the-clouds, unimportant, giddy, nonintellectual, light-headed, trivial, frivolous

5. unplayful, serious, soberadjective

   completely lacking in playfulness

   Synonyms:
   severe, sombre, drab, grave, good, sedate, unplayful, life-threatening, sober, somber, dangerous, grievous, solemn

   Antonyms:
   dizzy, noncrucial, silly, giddy, flighty, lightheaded, empty-headed, flyaway, scatterbrained, flippant, light-minded, head-in-the-clouds, featherbrained, airheaded, light, trivial, unimportant, nonintellectual, light-headed, easy, noncritical, idle, frivolous

6. seriousadjective

   requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve

   «raised serious objections to the proposal»; «the plan has a serious flaw»

   Synonyms:
   unplayful, severe, grave, good, life-threatening, sober, dangerous, grievous

   Antonyms:
   light-headed, unimportant, nonintellectual, lightheaded, trivial, empty-headed, noncrucial, light, head-in-the-clouds, silly, flighty, noncritical, flippant, giddy, scatterbrained, flyaway, dizzy, light-minded, easy, featherbrained, frivolous, idle, airheaded

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. seriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   grave, solemn, sedate, staid, sober, earnest, demure, not gay, not sportive or jocose

2. seriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   important, weighty, great, momentous

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1. seriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   grave, earnest, thoughtful, solemn, staid, sober, demure, saturnine, momentous, important, weighty, grave, dangerous, alarming, critical

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1. List of paraphrases for «serious»:

   grave, severe, seriously, acute, major, gross, dangerous, earnest, heavy, grievous, significant, dire, deep, graves, great, conscientiously, gravely, seriousness, critical, important, profound, considerable, severely, bad, earnestly, big, gravity, substantial, large, egregious, strong, huge, jad, real, difficult

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1. Dick Pound:

   I think the credibility of sport has taken some fairly serious body blows in the last few months, with FIFA and its particular forms of corruption and now the IAAF, and these are two of the most important sports in the world.

2. John Thune:

   I think that’s probably a statement that gets some press attention, but I doubt it gets any serious traction.

3. David Shear:

   There are no legal clauses that allow us to unilaterally change the contract or allow any one of the partners to simply walk away or overturn the entire agreement, no serious investor in any industry in the world would agree to a long-term business relationship with flimsy termination clauses.

4. Capitol Police:

   If the doors were breached, the rioters would have immediate access to the House Chambers, the actions of the officer in this case potentially saved Members and staff from serious injury and possible death from a large crowd of rioters who forced their way into the U.S. Capitol and to the House Chamber where Members and staff were steps away.

5. Bob Cressman:

   I hope that it opens peoples’ eyes and broadens their understanding of that part of the war, for the people fighting, it certainly wasn’t a sideshow, it was deadly serious business.

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• vážnýCzech
• o ddifri’, difrifolWelsh
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• grava, seriozaEsperanto
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• álvarsamurFaroese
• sérieux, sérieuseFrench
• komoly, súlyosHungarian
• լուրջArmenian
• alvarlegurIcelandic
• serio, graveItalian
• 本気, 真剣, 真面目Japanese
• 심각한Korean
• gravis, sevērusLatin
• svarīgs, nopietnsLatvian
• taumaha, tūpoupouMāori
• seriusMalay
• serieus, ernstigDutch
• seriøs, alvorligNorwegian
• poważnyPolish
• sérioPortuguese
• seriosRomanian
• серьёзныйRussian
• hládan, ȍzbīljan, vážan, znȁčājanSerbo-Croatian
• seriös, allvarlig, allvarsamSwedish
• ciddiTurkish
• серйознийUkrainian
• سنجیدہUrdu

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