serious music
— Noun
– English
～ traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste
serious
— Adjective
– English
～ 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!"
serious-minded
— Adjective
– English
～ acting with or showing thought and good sense; "a sensible young man"
serious
— Adjective
– English
～ completely lacking in playfulness
serious
— Adjective
– English
～ 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"
serious
— Adjective
– English
～ requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve; "raised serious objections to the proposal"; "the plan has a serious flaw"
serious
— Adjective
– English
～ appealing to the mind; "good music"; "a serious book"
serious
— Adjective
– English
～ of great consequence; "marriage is a serious matter"
seriously
— Adverb
– English
～ in a serious manner; "talking earnestly with his son"; "she started studying snakes in earnest"; "a play dealing seriously with the question of divorce"
seriously
— Adverb
– English
～ to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill"
seriousness
— Noun
– English
～ the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice
seriousness
— Noun
– English
～ the quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the seriousness of his illness"
seriousness
— Noun
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～ an earnest and sincere feeling
seriph
— Noun
– English
～ a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character
Seriphidium
— Noun
– English
～ woody plants grown chiefly for their silver or grey and often aromatic foliage; formerly included in the genus Artemisia
Seriphidium canum
— Noun
– English
～ low much-branched perennial of western United States having silvery leaves; an important browse and shelter plant
Seriphidium maritimum
— Noun
– English
～ plants of western and northern European coasts