1 in a serious way:
to be seriously ill / injured * You're not seriously expecting me to believe that? * They are seriously concerned about security. * Smoking can seriously damage your health.
2 (spoken) used at the beginning of a sentence to show a change from joking to being more serious:
Seriously though, it could be really dangerous.
3 (informal) very; extremely:
They're seriously rich.
IDIOMS
take sb/sth seriously to think that sb/sth is important and deserves your attention and respect:
We take threats of this kind very seriously. * Why can't you ever take anything seriously? * Headaches in young children should always be taken seriously. * You can't take anything she says very seriously.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of seriously come from?
This entry for seriously is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is seriously a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, seriously is tagged as adverb.
Does seriously appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — seriously appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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