Usually means: Grave, thoughtful, and earnest disposition.
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  1. serious-minded: Merriam-Webster
  2. serious-minded: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. serious-minded: Vocabulary.com
  4. serious-minded: Wordnik
  5. serious-minded: Wiktionary
  6. serious-minded: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. serious-minded: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. serious-minded: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. serious-minded: Dictionary.com
  10. serious-minded: FreeDictionary.org
  11. serious-minded: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. serious-minded: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  solemn

Similar:
solemn, somberish, grave, semiserious, earnest, sober, sombre, dolorous, sepulchral, severe, more...

Opposite:
lighthearted, frivolous, playful, humorous

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Similar:
solemn, somberish, grave, semiserious, earnest, sober, sombre, dolorous, sepulchral, severe, more...

Opposite:
lighthearted, frivolous, playful, humorous



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