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srsly

/sɚsli/

srsly interjection: are you serious? Really?

Interjection

  1. (Internet) Are you serious? Really?
    • A: My mum just broke her leg…
      B: srsly?!
    • what's the point of names anyway. srsly. you could call a 🌹 a different name, and it would still 👃 just as sweet.2015, William Shakespeare, Courtney Carbone, srsly Hamlet, Random House, →ISBN

Adverb

srsly (comparative more srsly, superlative most srsly)

  1. (Internet) Seriously.
    • A: She's srsly afraid to go out now.
      B: Yeah, that's understandable.
    • Srsly though, graduation isn't a forever goodbye and your future reunions will recapture the feelings you're leaving behind, believe it or not.2024 May 2, Nicole Pomarico, Kayleigh Roberts, Starr Bowenbank, “The Best Graduation Songs of All Time”, in Cosmopolitan

Forms of srsly

comparativemore srsly
superlativemost srsly

Origin of srsly

A shortening of seriously by removing the vowels, as is common on IRC or texting.

Questions about srsly

What does srsly mean?
Srsly means are you serious? Really?
What part of speech is srsly?
Srsly can be an interjection or an adverb.
How do you pronounce srsly?
Srsly is pronounced /sɚsli/.

Words near srsly in the dictionary

  1. srs
  2. srs bsns
  3. SRSes
  4. SRSG
  5. SRSGs
  6. srsly
  7. srsussy
  8. SRT
  9. SRTA
  10. Srta.
  11. Srtas

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