Seriousness

Definition

serious /'sÇǝriǝs/ adj ၁။ တည္ၾကည္ေလးနက္ေသာ။ a serious person/ expression/ manner ❍ She looked very serious when she heard the news. ❍ Please be serious for a minute, this is very important. ၂။ (စာအုပ္၊ ေတးဂီတ စသည္)ေလးနက္ေသာ။ အေပ်ာ္ဖတ္မဟုတ္ေသာ။ a serious play/ discussion ❍ a serious article about social problems. ၃။ စိုးရိမ္ရေသာ။ ျပင္းထန္ေသာ။ a serious illness/ mistake/ accident ❍ That could cause serious injury. ❍ The international situation is extremely serious. ၄။ ~ (about sb/ sth) ; ~ (about doing sth) အေလးအနက္ထားေသာ။ အတည္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ တကယ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a serious suggestion ❍ Are you really serious about him (ie Do you like or love him a lot?) ❍ Is she serious about wanting to be a pilot? သူ တကယ္ေလယာဥ္မႉး လုပ္ခ်င္တာလား။ ❏ in all seriousness [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေလးအနက္။ အရင္း အတိုင္း။ You can't in all seriousness go out in a hat like that! ❏ seriously adv ၁။ အေလးအနက္။ အျပင္းအထန္။ အသည္း အသန္။ speak seriously to her about it ❍ be seriously ill/ injured. ၂။ ( infml ) (ေလးေလးနက္နက္ ေျပာေတာ့မည္ဟု စကားပလႅင္ခံရာ၌သံုးသည္)။ Seriously though, you could really hurt yourself doing that. ❍ HOPEFUL ❏ seriousness n [U] ေလးနက္ျခင္း။ စိုးရိမ္ရျခင္း။ အေရးႀကီးျခင္း။ the seriousness of his expression ❍ Do you realize the seriousness of the situation? ❏ take sb/ sth seriously [ IDM ] အတည္ယူသည္။ အေလး အနက္ထားသည္။ She's so unreliable that you can't take anything she says seriously. ❍ He takes (his) work very seriously.

Examples

1. The sale of the company will have serious implications for people’s jobs.
2. [a serious problem/mistake] : It’s not a serious problem – we should be able to fix it without too much trouble.
3. [a serious illness/accident/injury] : A serious head injury
4. [a serious crime/offence/threat] : An accident like this poses a serious threat to the environment.
5. This is an extremely serious matter.
6. He has no serious competition for the post.
7. I’m sorry
8. I didn’t realize you were being serious.
9. The police have made no serious attempt to address these issues.
10. [serious about] : I’m not convinced they’re serious about the deal.
11. [serious about (doing) something] : Do you think Mike’s serious about going to live in New Zealand?
12. [deadly/dead serious] : ‘Are you serious about leaving your job?’ ‘Dead serious.’
13. [serious consideration/thought/discussion] : We’ll have to give the situation some serious thought.
14. Peter seems serious but he actually has a good sense of humour.
15. Is Mary all right? She looked a bit serious.
16. Serious books/music
17. Is it getting serious with you and June
18. then?
19. [a serious boyfriend/girlfriend/relationship] : He’s never had a serious relationship with anyone.
20. My father is a serious runner.
21. We did some serious hiking last weekend.
22. It’s time you made some serious money.