Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a serious manner; gravely; solemnly; in earnest; without levity: as, to think seriously of amending one's life.
- In a grave or alarming degree or manner; so as to give ground for apprehension.
- In a series; seriatim.
Wiktionary
- adv. manner In a serious or literal manner.
- adv. speech act Used to attempt to introduce a serious point in a less serious conversation
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a serious manner
- adv. to a severe or serious degree
Etymologies
- serious + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I understand the value of rallying the troops, but enlisting Will Ferrell (whom I love!) and other celebrities at a time when so much of the country has been seriously, * seriously* lied to, to then in many ways reinforce those terrible frames ...”
“If we want to take the term seriously, it might mean its fairer to defer to the elected branches of government.”
The Washington Post: TRANSCRIPT: The Elena Kagan Hearings - Day 1
“When you become Miss USA, you have to take the title seriously and you have to make good decisions, and Tara obviously didn't," Krueger said.”
“As a Gen Y'er myself, I find anyone who uses the term seriously to be completely abhorrent, ignorant, misinformed and unnecessarily offensive.”
“Anyone who takes the title seriously is missing the comedic aspect of the movie," says Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Weinstein Co.”
“Taking her seriously is an insult to intelligent women everywhere.”
“Okay, this seriously is my last post on this topic.”
“It is those who use this term seriously who are "lumping all of Islam under one roof" so that to criticize one element in it (ruthless Islamist terrorism) is to criticize all the religion.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Appropriators take their title seriously and they all feel like they got to appropriate, which means there's a myriad of priorities.”
“FLATOW: Should Major League Baseball take this more - I'm just going to use the word seriously - in keeping good statistics about this?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘seriously’.
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Tresgeek's TV Words List
Maybe it's a single-word catchphrase, maybe it's a word that evokes a particular episode, scene, or character, but if you watch as much television as I do, there are certain words you can't use in ...
fantastic, chlamydia, slap, seriously, bears, airlock, frack, spectacular, ah, bach!, yabba dabba do, that's all folks, warning! and 1 more...
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Of course!
darn tootin', damn straight, duh, fair dinkum, no shit, for sure, seriously, absolutely, no question, i'm sold, certainly, sure as shootin' and 8 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
ninjaeface's list
dang! i like these.
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Favorites
ostensibly, surreptitiously, seriously, apparently, vociferous, guitar, asphalt, glee, glitter, fascinating, asynchronous, cunt and 128 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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likaluca's Words
recursive, genuflect, libidinous, emote, smote, importune, trill, chillax, overshare, shorn, needle, ego and 162 more...
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Words I like and know of their meanin...
zenith, anathema, maelstrom, sardonic, juxtapose, belladonna, facade, rigor mortis, fiasco, chimera, gallivant, archaic and 64 more...
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Overused
Words that are used way too much in conversation, especially by me. Which is not to say I don't like them
awkward, random, totally, so, fully, sweet, whatever, bloody, skill0rz, skillage, skill, oh my god and 35 more...
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TT2 Lesson 20
acknowledge, act, adult, affection, age, agreement, authority, awesome, bogus, bother, common, commonplace and 58 more...
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Like
These are words I like.
professional, exumed, catacomb, zombie, blueberry, snap, zazzy, positive, shit, ridiculous, redonkulous, hood and 5 more...
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Words I suspect myself of overusing
amazing, intrinsic, incredibly, fascinating, totally, completely, definitely, fantastic, absolutely, remotely, really, hitherto and 16 more...
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Reactions
Possible reactions
good grief, seriously, ew, yikes, wahoo, no way, catch you later, oh my goodness, nuh uh, give me a break, are you kidding me, holy smokes and 1 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for seriously.
dontcry siriusly - in a bright manner Apr 26, 2008