"serious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

serious adjetivo

serious + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 566
serious problem • serious injury • serious threat • serious damage • serious condition • serious crime • serious illness • serious issue • ...
verbo + serious
Kolokacji: 11
grow serious • turn serious • look serious • become serious • sound serious • consider serious • ...
adverbio + serious
Kolokacji: 36
most serious • potentially serious • extremely serious • pretty serious • far more serious • ...
(1) most, truly
Kolokacji: 2
1. extremely serious = niezwykle poważny extremely serious
2. intensely serious = ogromnie poważny intensely serious
3. grimly serious = ponuro poważny grimly serious
  • But to the big London tabloids, it is a grimly serious business, journalistically and financially.
  • "I don't like any of this," he was saying, his voice low and intense, his face grimly serious.
  • Ellison now put a question which brought into this grimly serious trial the only touch of humour that attended it.
  • She took it all in, grimly serious.
  • Annie looked from one grimly serious face to the other, then down at the rain-filled tub, and she felt her cheeks go pale.
  • "But the analogy is most apt," and op Owen was grimly serious.
  • "I was grimly serious in my teen and college years," he says.
  • Now she could see just how elated he was, and how grimly serious in his delight.
  • Osteoporosis, the most common bone disease, is grimly serious, afflicting 10 million Americans over age 50 annually.
  • Not some little entertainment, mind you, but a sweeping and grimly serious work.
4. gravely serious = poważnie poważny gravely serious
(7) deeply, profoundly
Kolokacji: 2
serious + preposición
Kolokacji: 8
serious about • serious for • serious in • serious of • serious to • ...

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