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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

serious personality or nature;

e.g. His sobersided demeanor made her worry about his mental state.

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Similar Words

Businesslike

Clinical

Earnest

Earnestly

Grave

Hard-edged

Humorless

No-nonsense

Po-faced

Professional

Sedate

Serious

Severe

Sober

Solemn

Staid

Tough-minded

Unfunny

Unromantic

Weighty

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Opposite Words

Absurd

Antic

Balmy

Blue-sky

Brainless

Capricious

Cockeyed

Comedic

Comic

Comical

Crazy

Cuckoo

Dabbling

Daffy

Daft

Droll

Farcical

Flighty

Foolish

Freakish

Frisky

Frivolous

Frolicsome

Funny

Goofy

Harebrained

Hilarious

Humorous

Hysteric

Hysterical

Impulsive

Insane

Jerky

Jokey

Killing

Kooky

Laughable

Light

Light-headed

Lighthearted

Loony

Ludicrous

Lunatic

Mad

Nutty

Playful

Preposterous

Puerile

Ridiculous

Riotous

Risible

Sappy

Screaming

Screwball

Senseless

Sidesplitting

Silly

Slapstick

Sportive

Unwise

Uproarious

Wacky

Weak-minded

Whacky

Whimsical

Witless

Zany

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Related Words

Austere

Businesslike

Dignified

Distinguished

Dour

Down-to-earth

Elevated

Fierce

Flinty

Forbidding

Gloomy

Grim

Gruff

Hardheaded

Harsh

Lowering

Matter-of-fact

Practical

Pragmatic

Professional

Realistic

Rough

Rugged

Serious-minded

Severe

Stark

Starkly

Steely

Stern

Strict

Ungentle

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