self-serious
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.87 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Taking oneself too seriously, pretentiously and humorlessly convinced of one's own seriousness.
Example Sentences
- "This is not to say that there is a self-serious bone in Bill's body. He's a kid on a trike with a slingshot and a peashooter -- always has been, always will be."
- "Elizabeth had never recorded any period of her existence, failing to grasp the point of an exercise so self-absorbed and self-serious."
- "New Age is goofy, yet self-serious, with no sense of irony."
- "Relatable in neither its bizarrely specific plotting nor its broadly generic emotions, Dear Evan Hansen is so self-serious that it almost plays like self-parody, only without any “so bad it’s good” fun. We may all be striving for human connection right now, but we’re unlikely to find any here."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more self-serious (comparative)
most self-serious (superlative)