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Definition of over-serious in English: over-seriousadjective Excessively serious in character or mood. he struck some as solemn, aloof, and over-serious Example sentencesExamples - I think I'm the one who keeps veering into over-serious territory.
- Twenty years old and the head of the family since their parents died, Darry is overworked and overserious.
- He's doubtless a serious, possibly over-serious, fellow, but like many before him he judges the merits of his own words by the number of faces that turn his way when he speaks.
- There's something about this rather sombre and over-serious atmosphere that makes a part of me want to ask the most stupid and ridiculous or even offensive questions possible.
- I quickly grew tired of these over-serious young men with dubious coloured hair.
- Bookish, arrogant, prickly, and often willing to take offence when none was intended, he struck some of his contemporaries as solemn, aloof, and over-serious.
- As a boy who was overserious, solitary, weak and tempramental, there also seemed something rather uncomfortably personal about all of this.
- What really impressed me was that they weren't being over-serious, pretentious, or intellectual about what they were doing.
- Both men were prone to being over-serious about life, and Anne Darcy had always managed to somehow find a way past that seriousness.
- In his writing, though, he was seized by a very English terror of being over-serious.
- Their cheery approach in an occasionally over-serious scene won a handful of admirers - but a regular place at the top of the charts was never an option.
- He comes across as rather overserious and pretentious in a short Sundance Channel featurette on his trip to London to promote the film.
Synonyms tedious, difficult, dull, dry, serious, heavy-going, dreary, boring, turgid, uninteresting, wearisome, dry as dust
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