"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 • ...
(8) question, doubt, suspicion
Kolokacji: 3
(20) talk, conversation, flirtation
Kolokacji: 3
(22) tone, note, undertone
Kolokacji: 3
(37) money, change, cash
Kolokacji: 3
(47) player, actor, actress
Kolokacji: 3
(48) need, lack, toll, cost
Kolokacji: 4
(54) book, novel, novelist
Kolokacji: 3
(60) crash, clash, hit, collision
Kolokacji: 4
(62) flooding, flood
Kolokacji: 2
(64) pest, infestation
Kolokacji: 2
(66) fiction, contradiction
Kolokacji: 2
1. serious fiction = poważna fikcja serious fiction
  • Is there a wide readership for serious fiction of Grossman's kind?
  • I don't know if she has any interest in writing what people call serious literary fiction.
  • Do they read serious fiction and show an appreciation for the arts?
  • Hope, planning and positive action are his stock in trade and serious fiction is no place for them.
  • Although serious fiction is in great jeopardy these days, hope springs eternal.
  • There's not much physical environment in serious fiction now.
  • Now when you go to the beach, you see men reading popular and serious fiction.
  • By this time, Tranter was well established as a writer of serious historical fiction.
  • We even have the temerity to think that we're writing serious fiction.
  • I also began writing what I thought of as serious short fiction.
2. serious contradiction = poważna sprzeczność serious contradiction
(68) reason, provocation
Kolokacji: 2
(70) fun, comedy
Kolokacji: 2
(72) operation, surgery, drain
Kolokacji: 3
(73) drinking, drinker, wine
Kolokacji: 3
(74) analysis, breakdown
Kolokacji: 2
(76) demeanor, mien, impropriety
Kolokacji: 3
(78) bout, cyclist, contest
Kolokacji: 3
(79) pressure, crush, push
Kolokacji: 3
(80) inroads, foray, incursion
Kolokacji: 3
(81) gap, delay, slowdown
Kolokacji: 3
(82) buyer, shopper, shopping
Kolokacji: 3
(83) debt, liability, allergy
Kolokacji: 3
(85) news, reporting, coverage
Kolokacji: 3
(86) opera, theater, restaurant
Kolokacji: 3
(87) gardener, Cook, fisherman
Kolokacji: 3
(88) concussion, mishap, derailment
Kolokacji: 3
(89) hardship, distress, ambition
Kolokacji: 3
(90) emergency, racer
Kolokacji: 2
(92) sign, alarm, scare
Kolokacji: 3
(93) career, progress, headway
Kolokacji: 3
(94) imbalance, instability
Kolokacji: 2
(95) leak, shit
Kolokacji: 2
(96) claim, call
Kolokacji: 2
(97) addiction, drug, weed
Kolokacji: 3
(98) eater, eating, fare, food
Kolokacji: 4
(99) dilemma, distraction, disarray
Kolokacji: 3
(100) nonfiction, article
Kolokacji: 2
(101) concession, policy
Kolokacji: 2
(102) hiker, hiking
Kolokacji: 2
(103) suitor, enthusiast
Kolokacji: 2
(104) bottleneck, strait
Kolokacji: 2
(105) reconsideration, rethink
Kolokacji: 2
(106) audiophile
Kolokacji: 1
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 • ...
serious + preposición
Kolokacji: 8
serious about • serious for • serious in • serious of • serious to • ...

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