Seriously is an English word with synonyms like badly or severely. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Seriously meaning
- In a serious or literal manner.
- Gravely; deeply; very much.
- Used to attempt to introduce a serious point in a less serious conversation.
Using Seriously
- The main meaning on this page is: In a serious or literal manner. | Gravely; deeply; very much. | Used to attempt to introduce a serious point in a less serious conversation.
- Useful related words include: earnestly, in earnest, badly, severely.
- In the example corpus, seriously often appears in combinations such as: seriously injured, very seriously, seriously and.
Example sentences (20)
We take seriously our role in protecting national security and we take just as seriously our responsibility to be good stewards of our Section 702 authorities,” Wray said.
If the doctors are taking it seriously, I take it seriously.
I'll take this seriously when the authorities take it seriously.
So, it’s a big project but we would like to be leaders in it and we’re taking it very seriously,” Hilfiger adds (apparently not seriously enough to slow down production or limit trips across the pond, I think to myself).
The media has been taking it more seriously in the last couple of years because the government is taking it seriously.
We take the business very seriously but we don’t take ourselves too seriously, so we can always crack jokes about each other and laugh about it.
Regan writes about the difficulty of being taken seriously as a woman running a kitchen; her life story also illuminates the struggle of being taken seriously as a woman with a gritty past, unless that past is fully atoned for.
Take him literally but not seriously, or seriously but not literally.
You could say I’m taking this too seriously, but I think a series as important to movies — and to millions of people — as deserves to be taken seriously.
You issue hundreds of directives which no one takes seriously, because no one takes you seriously.
It’s important to take the issues seriously, but not ourselves too seriously.
Sheriff: 2 Teens Hit By Car, Seriously Hurt In St. FrancisTwo teenage girls were seriously hurt Tuesday night after being hit by a vehicle while they were in a highway crosswalk in St. Francis.
They helped me not to take myself too seriously, but always try to take the enterprise seriously.
He reminded the gathered mourners that while Bogart's life had ended far too soon, it had been a rich one: Himself, he never took too seriously—his work most seriously.
A 14-year-old boy was seriously wounded in a shooting Wednesday morning in Grand Crossing on the South Side.
A BBC spokesperson said to BBC News: "We treat any allegations very seriously and we have processes in place to proactively deal with them.
A cancer centre welcomed two celebrity guests as staff were praised for their work supporting seriously ill patients.
According to the enemy’s confession, an anti-armor missile managed to penetrate a military mechanism equipped with a missile interception system, instantly killing four soldiers and leaving two seriously injured.
A clergyman, Chike Agwuncha, leader of Orthodox Judaism of Nigeria (OJN), blamed the press, especially the social media for giving credence to such calls, adding that, ‘if such calls are not given publicity, nobody will take such orders seriously’.
A company has been fined £20,000 after an employee’s arm was seriously injured by machinery at its Nottinghamshire site.
Common combinations with seriously
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- seriously injured 29×
- very seriously 15×
- seriously and 13×
- too seriously 9×
- taken seriously 9×
- was seriously 9×
- seriously ill 8×
- and seriously 8×
- it seriously 7×
- seriously but 7×