seriousnessnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈsɪə.ri.əs.nəs/us/ˈsɪr.i.əs.nəs/seriousness noun [ U ] (BAD)
the state of being very bad or severe:
I don't think he has any idea of the seriousness of the situation.
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Importance - general words
- cornerstone
- focus
- grand
- gravitas
- importance
- magnitude
- meaning
- meaningful
- momentous
- proportion
- seniority
- significance
- simple
- status
- substance
- substantial
- supremacy
- transcendent
- value
- weight
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seriousness noun [ U ] (NOT JOKING)
the state of being serious, rather than intending to be funny:
In all seriousness now (= I am now being serious and no longer joking), I do think there's a problem here that we need to straighten out.
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Lacking humour
- be no laughing matter idiom
- beyond
- beyond a joke idiom
- earnest
- humourless
- laugh
- lightly
- mirthless
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- rofl
- serious
- seriously
- sober
- solemnity
- starchily
- starchy
- take a joke idiom
- turgid
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