"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
  • His science officer turned, forehead ridges damp with sweat, his expression intensely serious.
  • Not so much arro- gant as intensely serious, they conducted themselves to the full implications of their caste.
  • What begins as a hobby for the pensioners becomes intensely serious.
  • The smile never left his face, but his eyes became hard and intensely serious.
  • They were in a hurry to get going, and they were intensely serious about their studies.
  • His beer-ad image aside, Madden is intensely serious about his job.
  • "Of course it doesn't much matter to you, but to me it's so serious, so intensely serious."
  • When his tired eyelids gave a slight lift, it meant that Sue was intensely serious.
  • I smiled and hesitated, suspecting a joke, but he was intensely serious about this moniker.
  • Mr. Kennan was often a gloomy, sensitive and intensely serious man.
3. grimly serious = ponuro poważny grimly serious
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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