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Definition of Serious

Serious

  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.
  2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.
  3. Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.
  4. Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.

Serious Quotations

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Rahm Emanuel

Love is a serious mental disease.
Plato

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Serious Translations

serious in Afrikaans is erg, belangrik, ernstig
serious in Danish is vigtig, alvorlig
serious in Dutch is erg, ernstig, voornaam, belangrijk
serious in Italian is pesante, serio, grave
serious in Latin is serius, gravis
serious in Spanish is grave, importante, pesado, serio

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