When facing “Serious”, looking at how it’s been answered in past crosswords can help. These entries have all been used in clues that followed the same style and structure.
Possible Answers:
- EARNEST
- GRAVE
- SOLEMN
- SOBER
- SOMBRE
- SEVERE
- HEAVY
- SOMBER
- STAID
- ACUTE
- WEIGHTY
- NOJOKE
- MAJOR
- STERN
- INTENSE
Synonyms and Definitions
EARNEST
- Synonyms: businesslike, dear, devout, heartfelt, sincere, solemn
GRAVE
- Synonyms: dangerous, engrave, grave accent, grievous, heavy, inscribe, life-threatening, scratch, sculpt, sculpture, sedate, severe, sober, tomb, weighty
SOLEMN
- Synonyms: earnest, grave
SOBER
- Synonyms: drab, sober up, somber, sombre, unplayful
SOMBRE
- Synonyms: melancholy
SEVERE
- Synonyms: austere, hard, knockout, spartan, stark, stern, terrible, wicked
HEAVY
- Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, big, clayey, cloggy, dense, enceinte, expectant, fleshy, gravid, great, grueling, gruelling, impenetrable, intemperate, labored, laborious, laboured, large, leaden, lowering, lumbering, operose, overweight, ponderous, profound, punishing, sonorous, sound, sullen, threatening, toilsome, wakeless, weighed down, with child
ACUTE
- Synonyms: acuate, acute accent, ague, discriminating, incisive, intense, keen, knifelike, needlelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp
WEIGHTY
- Synonyms: cogent, corpulent, obese, rotund, telling
STERN
- Synonyms: after part, arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, exacting, fanny, fundament, grim, hind end, hindquarters, inexorable, keister, nates, poop, posterior, prat, quarter, rear, rear end, relentless, rump, seat, strict, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
INTENSE
- Synonyms: acute, vivid
- Definition: Having or showing a unique characteristic to an extreme extent.