"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. completely serious = całkowicie poważny completely serious
  • That was the only time I ever saw him completely serious.
  • "To write a completely serious play that makes people laugh all the time."
  • For the last eighty years any fight she found herself in was completely serious, meaning that death could always result.
  • They were completely serious moral beings living in a world where such terms usually had no content.
  • Some people I know watch the news and are completely serious.
  • A moment of silence passed that suggested he was completely serious.
  • The other thing is that we can no longer put off the language issue but must be completely serious about getting to grips with it.
  • He had been joking, but the tone of Mary's answer was completely serious.
  • She looked into his face one more time, and saw that he was completely serious.
  • "I don't know," she said slowly, completely serious for once.
2. entirely serious = całkowicie poważny entirely serious
3. terribly serious = szalenie poważny terribly serious
4. totally serious = zupełnie poważny totally serious
5. altogether serious = całkiem poważny altogether serious
6. intellectually serious = intelektualnie poważny intellectually serious
(7) deeply, profoundly
Kolokacji: 2
serious + preposición
Kolokacji: 8
serious about • serious for • serious in • serious of • serious to • ...

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