Usually means: Grave, thoughtful, not frivolous or light-hearted.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word serious:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. serious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. serious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. serious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. serious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. serious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Serious, serious: Wordnik
  7. serious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. serious: Wiktionary
  9. serious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. serious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. serious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. serious: Dictionary.com
  13. serious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. serious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Serious (Donna Allen song), Serious (Duran Duran song), Serious (Luther Allison album), Serious (TV series), Serious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Serious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. serious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. serious: Rhymezone
  19. serious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. serious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SERIOUS: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. serious: Free Dictionary
  23. serious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. serious: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. serious: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Serious (single), Serious (song), serious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. serious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Serious (single), Serious (song), serious: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SERIOUS: Acronym Finder
  2. serious: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. serious: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Serious, Serious: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition
adjective:  Important; weighty; not insignificant
adjective:  Really intending what is said (or planned, etc); in earnest; not jocular or deceiving
adjective:  (of a relationship) Committed.
adverb:  (colloquial or dialect) seriously, in a serious manner (most often heard in take or mean serious)

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