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seriously

UK/ˈsɪə.ɹi.əs.li//ˈsɪɹ.i.əs.li/

seriously adverb: in a serious or literal manner.

Adverb

seriously (comparative more seriously, superlative most seriously)

  1. In a serious or literal manner.
    • He was hoping that we would take him seriously.
    • Jimmy jokingly called Bob a doofus. Bob took the insult seriously.
  2. Gravely; deeply; very much.
    • That was a seriously unpleasant thing to say.
  3. Used to attempt to introduce a serious point in a less serious conversation.
    • Now, seriously, why did you forget to feed the cat today?
  4. Used to call back to a previous point, in disbelief or for emphasis.
    • You baked ten (10) cakes. Seriously, why did you do that?
  5. (informal) In an extreme or major way; majorly.
    • Unless you're seriously strapped (armed), you're about to be not okay too.

seriously meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

seriously in Tamil

பலத்த

seriously in Urdu

سنجیدگی کے ستھ, واقعی

seriously in Bengali

গম্ভীরভাবে

seriously in Malayalam

ഗൗരവതരമായി, ഗംഭീരമായി, കാര്യമായി
More languagesFewer languages
seriously in Arabic
بِجِدِّيَّة bi-jiddiyya, بجد begad
seriously in Vietnamese
nghiêm túc

Examples of seriously in a sentence

  • But seriously we are as dear to each other as sisters, and now that I am going to lose her I am almost heartbroken.”1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 101:
  • Masters and Johnson wanted their work to be taken seriously, and wanted to stay a step ahead of the morality police, so they tended to write in almost comically dense medicalese.2009 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Out of the Bedroom, Into the Clinic”, in The New York Times:
  • Jeremy, meanwhile, was the fun-lover, like me, who didn't always take it too seriously.2015, Christopher Biggins, Biggins - My Story:

All 40 example sentences with seriously

Synonyms of seriously

Forms of seriously

comparativemore seriously
superlativemost seriously

Origin of seriously

From Middle English seriously, sereously, ceryously, seryowslech (“earnestly”), equivalent to serious + -ly.

Words formed from seriously

Phrases with seriously

Questions about seriously

What does seriously mean?
Seriously means in a serious or literal manner.
What is seriously in Tamil?
Seriously in Tamil is பலத்த. See Seriously meaning in Tamil.
How do you use seriously in a sentence?
But seriously we are as dear to each other as sisters, and now that I am going to lose her I am almost heartbroken.”
What part of speech is seriously?
Seriously is an adverb.
How do you pronounce seriously?
Seriously is pronounced /ˈsɪə.ɹi.əs.li/ (UK).

Words near seriously in the dictionary

  1. serious-mindedly
  2. serious-mindedness
  3. seriouser
  4. seriousest
  5. seriousley
  6. seriously
  7. seriousness
  8. seriousnesses
  9. seripauperin
  10. seripauperins
  11. seriph

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: seriously (page history and authors); seriously (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seriously (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seriously (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seriously (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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