Synonyms for Serious:

• adj.

  •acute (adjective)
  • more serious,
  • more acute.
  •adult (adjective)
  • virile,
  • developed,
  • adult,
  • mature,
  • of age,
  • nubile,
  • reasonable,
  • full-grown.
  •austere (adjective)
  • in exorable,
  • ex acting,
  • ex-acting,
  • in-exorable,
  • un-relenting,
  • un-feeling,
  • forbidding,
  • un relenting,
  • formal,
  • un feeling,
  • in-flexible,
  • in flexible,
  • stern.
  •bad (adjective)
  • painful.
  •big (adjective)
  • more heavyduty,
  • more heavy duty,
  • more heavy-duty,
  • most heavy duty,
  • para-mount,
  • para mount,
  • powerful,
  • most valuable,
  • heavy duty,
  • most heavyduty,
  • most heavy-duty,
  • more prominent,
  • heavyduty.
  •big league (adjective)
  • strictly business,
  • front-page,
  • playing hard ball,
  • front page,
  • four-star,
  • high-power.
  •bound and determined (adjective)
  • bound determined.
  •businesslike (adjective)
  • well-ordered,
  • disciplined,
  • workaday.
  •composed (adjective)
  • Soothed,
  • sure of oneself,
  • have one's act together,
  • levelheaded,
  • not turn a hair,
  • keeping a stiff upper lip,
  • Disimpassioned,
  • keeping one's shirt on,
  • cool as cucumber,
  • at ease.
  •consequential (adjective)
  • far reaching,
  • far-reaching,
  • farreaching.
  •critical (adjective)
  • high-priority,
  • risky,
  • Exceptive,
  • pivotal,
  • all-important.
  •crucial, weighty (adjective)
  • out for blood,
  • tough,
  • formidable,
  • strenuous,
  • unamusing,
  • sobering,
  • momentous,
  • fell,
  • grievous,
  • of consequence,
  • menacing,
  • fateful,
  • smoking,
  • meaning business,
  • major,
  • no joke,
  • difficult,
  • Operose,
  • threatening,
  • no laughing matter.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • on collision course,
  • dangersome,
  • shaky,
  • parlous,
  • Jeopardous,
  • portentous.
  •deadpan (adjective)
  • more poker faced,
  • more poker-faced,
  • more straight-faced,
  • more straightfaced,
  • impassive,
  • most straight-faced,
  • more straight faced,
  • most straightfaced,
  • straightfaced,
  • straight faced,
  • poker faced,
  • most poker-faced,
  • most straight faced,
  • most poker faced,
  • un readable,
  • un-readable.
  •decided (adjective)
  • un-hesitating,
  • un yielding,
  • ironjawed,
  • un wavering,
  • most strong-minded,
  • iron jawed,
  • more iron jawed,
  • un bending,
  • most iron-jawed,
  • more resolved,
  • more strong minded,
  • more strongminded,
  • de-liberate,
  • un-yielding,
  • un-faltering,
  • re-solved,
  • more iron-jawed,
  • de liberate,
  • most iron jawed,
  • strong minded,
  • un faltering,
  • most strongminded,
  • most resolved,
  • most strong minded,
  • strongminded,
  • un-bending,
  • most ironjawed,
  • re solved,
  • iron-jawed,
  • un-wavering,
  • un hesitating,
  • more strong-minded,
  • more ironjawed.
  •deep (adjective)
  • hard to understand,
  • sibylline,
  • orphic,
  • hermetic,
  • wisest.
  •demure (adjective)
  • more unassertive,
  • re-tiring,
  • unassuming,
  • most unassured,
  • re tiring,
  • un-assured,
  • prudish,
  • un assertive,
  • strait laced,
  • de mure,
  • un-assertive,
  • more unassured,
  • un assured,
  • un-assuming,
  • un assuming,
  • de-mure,
  • most unassertive.
  •determined (adjective)
  • un flinching,
  • most hard as nails,
  • more hard as nails,
  • most hard-as-nails,
  • un-flinching,
  • stubborn,
  • strongwilled,
  • steadfast,
  • on ice,
  • strong willed,
  • single minded,
  • more hard-as-nails.
  •devout (adjective)
  • more venerating,
  • most revering,
  • more adherent,
  • most adoring,
  • more adoring,
  • most venerating,
  • more revering,
  • Revering,
  • pietistic,
  • holy,
  • goody twoshoes,
  • most adherent,
  • most heart-and-soul,
  • more heart-and-soul,
  • most heart and soul,
  • goodygoody,
  • most worshiping,
  • goody goody,
  • more heart and soul,
  • goody two shoes,
  • more worshiping.
  •enthusiastic (adjective)
  • fervent.
  •expressionless (adjective)
  • deadpan.
  •fervent (adjective)
  • ex-cited,
  • ex cited,
  • hot for.
  •fervent/fervid (adjective)
  • un-feigned,
  • falling over oneself,
  • un feigned,
  • most fervid,
  • more fervent,
  • hot-blooded,
  • hot blooded.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • dirgelike.
  •grave (adjective)
  • most killing,
  • killing,
  • more killing,
  • feller,
  • fellest.
  •gross (adjective)
  • un-mitigated,
  • out rightest,
  • egregious,
  • un mitigated,
  • in-ordinate,
  • out right,
  • out righter,
  • un-qualified,
  • out-righter,
  • un qualified,
  • out-right.
  •hard (adjective)
  • uphill battle,
  • Toilful,
  • unsparing,
  • harder,
  • Difficile,
  • effortful.
  •heavy (adjective)
  • most acroamatic,
  • more acroamatic,
  • Heightened,
  • in tolerable,
  • in-tolerable,
  • Acroamatic.
  •heavyweight (adjective)
  • bluechip,
  • heavyweight.
  •heightened (adjective)
  • ter,
  • te,
  • in tensive,
  • in-tensive.
  •hell-bent (adjective)
  • hellbent,
  • hell-bent.
  •important (adjective)
  • make-or-break,
  • dominant,
  • eternal,
  • epoch-making,
  • sacred,
  • special,
  • major league,
  • high-powered,
  • landmark,
  • mere,
  • vital,
  • especial,
  • monumental,
  • newsworthy,
  • mattering much,
  • of moment,
  • salient,
  • central,
  • front and center,
  • hot,
  • distinguished,
  • vitally,
  • signal,
  • big league,
  • sacrosanct,
  • cardinal,
  • world-shaking,
  • big-wig,
  • focal,
  • considerable,
  • telling,
  • fundamental,
  • crucial,
  • influential,
  • all-consuming,
  • historic,
  • of note,
  • earthshaking,
  • valuable,
  • importunate,
  • noteworthy,
  • prominent,
  • eminent,
  • of substance,
  • key,
  • big-name.
  •incurable (adjective)
  • out of time,
  • inoperable,
  • Remediless,
  • uncorrectable,
  • Immedicable,
  • unrecoverable,
  • nowhere to go,
  • irrecoverable.
  •life-and-death (adjective)
  • vitally important,
  • earth-shaking,
  • of vital importance,
  • life or death,
  • life and death,
  • earth-shattering,
  • earthshattering.
  •life-threatening (adjective)
  • lifethreatening.
  •major (adjective)
  • pre-eminent,
  • stellar,
  • out-standing.
  •major-league (adjective)
  • most pre-eminent,
  • more pre eminent,
  • most pre eminent,
  • majorleague,
  • more pre-eminent.
  •material (adjective)
  • most pointful,
  • ad rem,
  • most applicative,
  • more pointful,
  • more applicative,
  • applicative,
  • pointful.
  •matter-of-fact (adjective)
  • un impassioned,
  • un-idealistic,
  • matter-of-fact,
  • un sentimental,
  • most unidealistic,
  • most unimpassioned,
  • un-sentimental,
  • un imaginative,
  • un-impassioned,
  • prosiest,
  • most unsentimental,
  • more unsentimental,
  • un idealistic,
  • un-imaginative,
  • more unimpassioned,
  • prosy,
  • hard boiled,
  • cold blooded,
  • prosier,
  • un affected,
  • stoic,
  • un varnished,
  • un-varnished,
  • more unidealistic.
  •meaningful (adjective)
  • ex-act,
  • ex act.
  •memorable (adjective)
  • most surpassing,
  • sur passing,
  • extra-ordinary,
  • red letter,
  • more rubric,
  • more surpassing,
  • un forgettable,
  • most rubric,
  • topdrawer,
  • doozie,
  • most bodacious,
  • more rememberable,
  • most rememberable,
  • sur-passing,
  • more doozie,
  • memorable,
  • mindblowing,
  • mind blowing,
  • top-drawer,
  • most doozie,
  • A 1,
  • redletter,
  • un-forgettable,
  • more bodacious.
  •no-nonsense (adjective)
  • nononsense,
  • no nonsense.
  •notable (adjective)
  • well known,
  • more highprofile,
  • highprofile,
  • un-common,
  • un commoner,
  • more high-profile,
  • more high profile,
  • most highprofile,
  • un commonest,
  • more celebrious,
  • more nameable,
  • un common,
  • most high-profile,
  • nameable,
  • wellknown,
  • most celebrious,
  • un usual,
  • most nameable,
  • most high profile,
  • most distingue,
  • more distingue,
  • un-usual,
  • un-commoner.
  •noteworthy (adjective)
  • under lined,
  • more underlined,
  • Ender,
  • most underlined,
  • endest,
  • more stand out,
  • more stand-out,
  • under-lined,
  • most stand-out,
  • splashest,
  • most stand out.
  •onerous (adjective)
  • most headache,
  • most crushing,
  • galling,
  • over taxing,
  • more overtaxing,
  • most overtaxing,
  • more crushing,
  • more headache,
  • most plodding,
  • more embittering,
  • over-powering,
  • most embittering,
  • more plodding,
  • over powering,
  • over-taxing.
  •pensive (adjective)
  • with drawn,
  • more ruminating,
  • pondering,
  • most ruminating,
  • pre-occupied,
  • more pondering,
  • more reflecting,
  • with-drawn,
  • most reflecting,
  • pre occupied,
  • most pondering.
  •pressing (adjective)
  • most heat on,
  • most hurry up,
  • more claiming,
  • most heat-on,
  • more hurry up,
  • more hurry-up,
  • re quiring,
  • most forcing,
  • most hurryup,
  • hurryup,
  • more hurryup,
  • more heaton,
  • most constraining,
  • most hurry-up,
  • more heat-on,
  • heat on,
  • more forcing,
  • more constraining,
  • hurry up,
  • most claiming,
  • heaton,
  • most heaton,
  • re-quiring,
  • more heat on.
  •profound (adjective)
  • pro-founder,
  • pro found,
  • pro founder,
  • pro-found.
  •resolute (adjective)
  • iron-willed,
  • ruthless,
  • relentless,
  • persistent,
  • implacable,
  • unshakeable,
  • tenacious,
  • indefatigable,
  • loyal,
  • spunky,
  • firm,
  • zealous,
  • uncompromising,
  • bullheaded,
  • tireless,
  • indomitable,
  • unyielding,
  • steady,
  • unflinching,
  • decisive,
  • dauntless,
  • dead set on,
  • courageous,
  • intent,
  • insistent,
  • committed,
  • resolved,
  • headstrong,
  • unchangeable,
  • plucky,
  • faithful,
  • dedicated,
  • reliable,
  • dogged,
  • diligent,
  • devoted,
  • fearless,
  • inexorable,
  • intent upon,
  • set,
  • unwavering,
  • strong-willed,
  • willing,
  • staunch,
  • true,
  • unbending,
  • deliberate,
  • persevering,
  • bold,
  • steely,
  • thorough,
  • constant,
  • hearty,
  • valiant.
  •ruminative (adjective)
  • in brown study,
  • ruminative,
  • in a brown study.
  •sad (adjective)
  • up-setting,
  • most discomposing,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • more dejecting,
  • up setting,
  • un happier,
  • most heart-rending,
  • un-happy,
  • un happy,
  • tearful,
  • tearjerking,
  • dis-composing,
  • most saddening,
  • un satisfactory,
  • most dejecting,
  • most heart rending,
  • de pressing,
  • tear jerking,
  • sad,
  • de-pressing,
  • more heart rending,
  • un happiest,
  • heart rending,
  • dis composing,
  • more saddening,
  • more heart-rending,
  • more discomposing.
  •sedate (adjective)
  • laidback.
  •severe (adjective)
  • ironhanded,
  • flinty,
  • hardnosed,
  • iron-handed,
  • unsmiling,
  • bad,
  • severe.
  •significant (adjective)
  • more expressing,
  • ex-pressing,
  • carrying a lot weight,
  • most meaning,
  • de-noting,
  • more meaning,
  • carrying lot of weight,
  • de noting,
  • most denoting,
  • carrying lot weight,
  • re presentative,
  • more denoting,
  • ex pressing,
  • most expressing,
  • re-presentative.
  •sincere (adjective)
  • un-designing,
  • more up-front,
  • more up front,
  • un-pretentious,
  • more deadlevel,
  • on and up,
  • on level,
  • out spoken,
  • more undissembled,
  • un designing,
  • like is,
  • more upfront,
  • most up front,
  • Undesigning,
  • most upfront,
  • more pretensionless,
  • out-spoken,
  • most pretensionless,
  • most undissembled,
  • on up up,
  • more meant,
  • most undesigning,
  • un-dissembled,
  • on up,
  • most up-front,
  • more dead-level,
  • honest god,
  • twentyfour carat,
  • deadlevel,
  • trueblue,
  • pre tensionless,
  • more dead level,
  • most meant,
  • twenty four carat,
  • true-blue,
  • most dead-level,
  • un dissembled,
  • most deadlevel,
  • pre-tensionless,
  • most dead level,
  • more undesigning.
  •sober (adjective)
  • took the pledge,
  • abstinent,
  • forgoing,
  • unexcited,
  • low key,
  • Clear-headed,
  • not drunk,
  • nonindulgent.
  •solid (adjective)
  • law-abiding.
  •somber (adjective)
  • most sourpuss,
  • more depressive,
  • somber,
  • more hurting,
  • most depressive,
  • more sourpuss,
  • most dragged,
  • more dragged.
  •somber, humorless (adjective)
  • honest,
  • genuine,
  • grim,
  • meditative,
  • pokerfaced,
  • go for broke,
  • bound,
  • weighty,
  • contemplative,
  • unhumorous,
  • reflective,
  • long-faced,
  • downbeat.
  •staid (adjective)
  • selfrestrained,
  • self restrained.
  •studious (adjective)
  • hard-working,
  • well-informed.
  •subdued (adjective)
  • un obtrusive,
  • most moderated,
  • down the mouth,
  • more tempered,
  • most muted,
  • more softened,
  • more moderated,
  • down mouth,
  • in obtrusive,
  • most tempered,
  • more chastened,
  • tempered,
  • more muted,
  • un-obtrusive,
  • in-obtrusive,
  • out spirits,
  • shaded,
  • most softened,
  • most chastened,
  • sub missive.
  •substantial (adjective)
  • well-built,
  • goodly,
  • big-deal.
  •terrible (adjective)
  • un-nerving,
  • awe inspiring,
  • most horrifying,
  • un welcome,
  • most unnerving,
  • more horrifying,
  • in-convenient,
  • more unnerving,
  • inconvenient,
  • more dreaded,
  • more petrifying,
  • un-fortunate,
  • beastliest,
  • un nerving,
  • most petrifying,
  • un fortunate,
  • unwelcome,
  • un-welcome,
  • beastlier,
  • in convenient,
  • aweinspiring,
  • most dreaded.
  •thoughtful (adjective)
  • most reasoning,
  • de-liberative,
  • most museful,
  • more reasoning,
  • more museful,
  • de liberative,
  • lost thought.
  •ugly (adjective)
  • most scowling,
  • dis agreeable,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • more scowling.
  •urgent (adjective)
  • toppriority,
  • more impelling,
  • calledfor,
  • re quired,
  • most top priority,
  • more demanded,
  • more calledfor,
  • most calledfor,
  • most top-priority,
  • more called for,
  • more top priority,
  • most impelling,
  • most called-for,
  • wanted,
  • touch go,
  • more top-priority,
  • most toppriority,
  • most demanded,
  • most called for,
  • more toppriority,
  • more called-for,
  • top priority,
  • re-quired.
  •venerable (adjective)
  • more venerated,
  • more reverenced,
  • more reverend,
  • most patriarchal,
  • most matriarchal,
  • most worshipped,
  • more matriarchal,
  • most venerated,
  • more patriarchal,
  • most reverenced,
  • most revered,
  • more worshipped,
  • more revered.
  •wholehearted (adjective)
  • whole-hearted.
  •wholehearted/whole-hearted (adjective)
  • de-voted,
  • more never-failing,
  • more neverfailing,
  • more whole hearted,
  • de voted,
  • most neverfailing,
  • un-questioning,
  • never failing,
  • un questioning,
  • un-stinting,
  • neverfailing,
  • most never failing,
  • most never-failing,
  • more whole-hearted,
  • un stinting,
  • un-reserved.

• n.

  •
  • widely,
  • enormous,
  • big,
  • great,
  • huge,
  • high,
  • large,
  • extensive.
  •
  • in the process of doing something,
  • active,
  • attitude,
  • be harnessed to.
  •
  • work,
  • ruinous,
  • disastrous,
  • harmful,
  • injurious,
  • damaging.
  •
  • upset,
  • troubled,
  • nervous,
  • frightened,
  • uneasy,
  • help,
  • alarmed,
  • on edge,
  • worried.
  •
  • cheat,
  • dally with,
  • go with,
  • carry on,
  • go together,
  • cohabit,
  • date,
  • go out,
  • fool around,
  • court.
  •
  • humorlessly,
  • funereal.
  •capital (noun)
  • capital.
  •earnest (noun)
  • earnest.
  •intellectual (noun)
  • intellectual.
  •of import (noun)
  • of import.
  •overserious (noun)
  • overserious.
  •real (noun)
  • real.
  •sensible (noun)
  • sensible.
  •solemn (noun)
  • solemn.
  •unplayful (noun)
  • unplayful.

• v.

  •intensified (verb)
  • intense.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • draconian,
  • towering,
  • disquieting,
  • ultimate,
  • dearly,
  • involved,
  • engaged,
  • scalding,
  • lighten up,
  • suspicious,
  • officious,
  • rigorous,
  • complicit,
  • submerged,
  • fatally,
  • classical,
  • sobersided,
  • extravagant,
  • stressful,
  • fervid,
  • ferocious,
  • severely,
  • gross,
  • keenly,
  • daunting,
  • actively,
  • stolid,
  • disturbing,
  • oppressive,
  • frontal,
  • keen,
  • disconcerting,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • Nail Biting,
  • dreadfully,
  • desperate,
  • distressing,
  • worrisome,
  • worrying,
  • sublime,
  • much,
  • ominous.
  •
  • uphill,
  • supreme,
  • tall,
  • far,
  • alarmist,
  • foreboding,
  • rigid,
  • frightening,
  • spectacular,
  • unbearable,
  • tense,
  • niggling,
  • badly,
  • unsettled,
  • concerned,
  • brooding,
  • venerable,
  • sharply,
  • sickening,
  • terminal,
  • massive,
  • fraught,
  • dire,
  • humorless,
  • merciless,
  • Searing,
  • explosive,
  • fatal,
  • arduous.
  •
  • savage,
  • laborious,
  • high-level,
  • crushing,
  • proper,
  • extreme,
  • anxious,
  • stiff,
  • sore.
  •
  • awful.
  •
  • seriously.
  •
  • strong.
  •stately
  • dignified.

Paraphrases for Serious:

• Equivalence

  • Foreign word
    severe.
  • Adjective
    gravest, difficult, earnest, serous, weighty, dangerous, grave, serious-minded, grievous, major.
  • Proper noun, singular
    dangerous, grave, grievous, major.
  • Verb, past tense
    grave.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    grave, grievous.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    profound, dramatic, intense, crucial, life-threatening, terrible, tough, perilous, precarious, disastrous, vigorous, heinous, worst, stringent, careful, alarming, ominous, daunting, immense, solemn, sobering, meticulous, grim, -seriously, flagrant, horrendous, compelling, proper, aggravated, sober, true, pressing, prominent, in-depth, powerful, widespread, arduous, catastrophic, fierce, respectable, urgent, vicious, reliable, businesslike, overwhelming, vast, serial, solid, damning, Business-like, tragic, credible, stern, robust, challenging, significant, scrupulous, aggravating, appalling, thoroughgoing, indictable, stark, large-scale, damaging, violent, high-profile, sombre, blatant, dreadful, stiff, desperate, conspicuous, bitter, problematic, rampant, complicated, ponderous, sizeable, prudent, unfortunate, sensible, potent, questionable, sound, earnestly, comprehensive, destructive, utmost, deadly, negative, rough, well-founded, distressing.
  • Proper noun, singular
    notices, significant.
  • Noun, plural
    repercussions, consequences, Injuries, Crimes, illnesses, breaches, Felonies, problems, levels, LOWS, Ones.
  • Interjection
    really.
  • Verb, past tense
    Happened, Meant.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    poses, encumbers, works, Worries, remains, covers.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    egregious, considerable, enormous, dire, tremendous, conscientious, strong, deep, rigorous, onerous, momentous, genuine, meaningful, real, seriously, formidable, worrisome, drastic, disturbing, thorough, devastating, far-reaching, thoughtful, extensive, worrying, strenuous, troubling, burdensome, sincere, cumbersome, fundamental, authoritative, strict, severe, reputable, honest, adverse, heavy-duty, intensive, outrageous.
  • Proper noun, singular
    seriously, seriousness, severe.
  • Noun, plural
    proportions.
  • Interjection
    seriously.

Antonyms for Serious:

• adj.

  • all
    frivolous.
  • crucial, weighty
    meaningless, insignificant, friendly, easy, little, facile, calm, worthless, small.
  • somber, humorless
    unimportant, happy, flippant, insincere, untrustworthy, dishonest, trivial, deceptive, false, misleading, light, funny.
  • Other antonyms:
    Weak-minded, nonsensical, nutty, loony, cuckoo, lunatic, mad, kooky, lite, noncritical, unwise, safe, Daffy, fatuous, nonintellectual, advantageous, asinine, cockeyed, innocent, jesting, minor, unserious, beneficial, witless, harmless, uproarious, unthreatening, good, zany, screwball, daft, innocuous, hilarious, crazy, brainless, wacky, noncrucial, balmy, insane, sappy, senseless, half-witted, foolish, dotty, joking, nonhazardous, jerky.

Homophones for Serious:

• syracuse, saururaceae, seahorse, SIRC, sucrose, screechy, serous, scores, sewer gas, skreak, squark, screech, sage grouse, serosa, sewage works, sorus, sikorsky, scissors, screaky, sirius, siqueiros, sawhorse, shark, scrag, shire horse, seiurus, skreigh, siriasis, Skagerak, sugar cookie, secrecy, scrooge, sericeous, susurrous, scorch, Sirach, sea wrack, siracusa, sewerage, sea horse, shrike, sorgho, shirk, saururus, shrewish, saurosuchus, scourge, scours, shriek, susurrus, sourish, shiraz, sargasso, series, scissors kick, scherzo, squirearchy, scraggy, Showy Orchis, saccharose, Skagerrak, ski rack, shrug, ski race, shears, sorgo, sciurus, sarawak, scheuchzeriaceae, surcease, sack race, shag rug, seagrass, serax, saurischia, saragossa, screw jack, sayers, source, squaw grass, sirocco, scarce, sorex, surge, squarish, search, shakers, screw key, sucrase, siris, sazerac, saccharase, screak, skew arch, scorsese, SARS, serge, Sargasso Sea.