Serious - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 10/04/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Serious.

4 letter answer(s) to serious

DIRE
  1. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
  2. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"

7 letter answer(s) to serious

EARNEST
  1. characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; "both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate"; "an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant"; "a film with a solemn social message"
  2. earnest; "one's dearest wish"; "devout wishes for their success"; "heartfelt condolences"
  3. not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal
  4. Serious, straight-faced, humourless
  5. something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract

5 letter answer(s) to serious

GRAVE
  1. a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
  2. a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"
  3. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"
  4. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;
  5. death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"
  6. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
  7. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discusse
SOBER
  1. become more realistic; "After thinking about the potential consequences of his plan, he sobered up"
  2. become sober after excessive alcohol consumption; "Keep him in bed until he sobers up"
  3. cause to become sober; "A sobering thought"
  4. completely lacking in playfulness
  5. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
  6. lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
  7. not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

10 letter answer(s) to serious

NONONSENSE

6 letter answer(s) to serious

SOLEMN
  1. characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; "both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate"; "an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant"; "a film with a solemn social message"
  2. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
SOMBER
  1. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
  2. lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Serious'

(Over-)serious
... assurance to win tight set
Absolutely serious eastern winds
Abstemious, thus taking beer half-heartedly
Abstinent - muted in colour
Acute
Advance payment showing sincerity
All business
Apocalyptic
August 1, 1000 - Normans' first meeting
Austere English composer's blocking film
Awful
Awful finisher, reportedly?
Burial place
Calamitous
Clear-headed
Clearheaded
Critical
Cry over queen’s grave
Dedicated a Sterne novel
Desperate
Determined to broadcast Hemingway, for example
Dignified
Dignified - lacking colour
Dignified and serious
Disastrous
Dreadful
Dreadful order disregards court's contribution
Dreadful, as circumstance
Dried out
Dries out properties that are distressing to be in
Dry
Extremely serious
Fantastic melons in August
Foreboding trouble
Formal and dignified
Formal, dignified
Fraught with danger
Frightful bores, sedate and rational
Funereal
German party is subdued
Grand party where we may well end up?
Grave
Grievous
Heading across France occasionally to find grave
Heartfelt
Heavy accent
Hemingway, perhaps, penning article, becomes serious
Horrendous
Horrific
Impossibility: tin thrown up seen flying down to earth
In ___ straits
Judicious
Kind of need
Kind of oath
Kind of straits
Life-or-death
Like a designated driver
Like a judge in his garb, swapping sides
Like a judge with robes in disarray
Like a requiem
Like many an oath
Like many oaths
Like some accents
Like some consequences
Like some oaths
Like some straits
Like true believers
Listener starts to need expert solvers to be serious
Maiden name on individual grave
Man disembowelled by fish is in grave state
Maybe Hemingway's taking answer to grave
More than serious
Nearly hopeless
Not at all sunny
Not drunk
Not even a bit tiddly
Not intoxicated
Not just serious
Not lit
Not looking good
Not smiling, perhaps having chewed up lemons
Not tipsy
Off the sauce
Ominous
Ominous rainclouds beginning to appear - peg out clothes?
On the wagon
Only chap to avoid a grave
Only fellow not given a grave
Only second half of hymn is formal and dignified
Place to 10 someone
Plain and simple
Pledge made by composer in Estonia ...
Potentially disastrous
Presaging disaster
Purposeful
Rage-filled policeman features in predicament
Repeated one's name, struggling to be businesslike
Sedate
See 8 Down
Sensible - clear-headed
Serious accident papers ignored
Serious and sincere
Serious attention given to home
Serious award given to senior …
Serious consequence of snog at last party
Serious eastern winds
Serious fellow heard
Serious gloomy American disposing of millions
Serious grant?
Serious head of governing party
Serious listener, home later
Serious load of fuzz in the lughole?
Serious man’s given a hearing
Serious passion seen in pursuit of daughter
Serious pledge
Serious start on galvanising party
Serious student stripped on street
Serious words are said in
Serious, thoughtful
Serious; formal
Serious; not drunk
Simple and straightforward
Sincere
Sincere - humourless
Sincere and very serious
Sincere answer Hemingway accepts?
Single man disheartened and glum
Single man, heartlessly serious
Single month — November or August?
Sneer at
Sneer at forged art making money?
Sneer at shabby grave
Solemn - burial place
Solemn accent
Solemn one crying half-heartedly
Solemn Queen presented bandages
Solemn robes altered
Sombre
Sombre accent
Someone who cries half-heartedly is not drunk
Temperate
Terrible
Terribly British, queen's not amused
Thoughtful article about Hemingway? On the contrary
Unlit?
Unloaded?
Unsmiling
Urgent
Very serious
Very serious stiff might be found here
Vital Bishop should exert grip on French cathedral city
Without excess: in this way, live right
___ as a judge

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