Serious crossword clue 5, 6 and 7 letters

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:

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.