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Demure :: Demure (a.) Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity..

Inanity :: Inanity (n.) Want of seriousness; aimlessness; frivolity.

Startle :: Startle (v. t.) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise..

Good :: Good (superl.) Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth.

Jocoserious :: Jocoserious (a.) Mingling mirth and seriousness.

Homily :: Homily (n.) A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.

Persiflage :: Persiflage (n.) Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery..

Brood :: Brood (v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes..

Admit :: Admit (v. t.) To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause..

Solemnize :: Solemnize (v. t.) To make grave, serious, and reverential..

Spruce :: Spruce (n.) Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons..

Admonish :: Admonish (v. t.) To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort..

Trifle :: Trifle (n.) To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements..

Sobriety :: Sobriety (n.) Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years..

Severe :: Severe (superl.) Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful..

Badly :: Badly (adv.) In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.

Tragi-comedy :: Tragi-comedy (n.) A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy.

Weighty :: Weighty (superl.) Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous..

Solemnity :: Solemnity (n.) Hence, affected gravity or seriousness..

Consider :: Consider (v. i.) To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.

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