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1. Serious in feeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.




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Draconian crisp heavy onerous spasmatic
Herculean critical heavy-handed open spasmic
Siberian crude hibernal operose spasmodic
Spartan cruel hiemal oppressive spiny
Spartanic crusty high-handed outrageous splitting
abrupt curt homely overbearing square
absolute cutting homespun overruling stabbing
absolutist dangerous homogeneous painful stark
absolutistic delicate hostile painfully steep
abstruse demanding hurtful painstaking stern
acerbic despotic hurting paroxysmal stiff
acid dictatorial hyperborean penetrating stinging
acidulous difficile ice-cold peremptory stone-cold
acrid difficult ice-encrusted piercing stony
acrimonious dire icelike pinching stormy
acute direct icy pinpoint straightforward
afflictive disagreeable immoderate piquant strait-laced
aggressive disciplined imperative pitiless strenuous
agonizing distressing imperial plain strict
algid domineering imperious plain-speaking strident
aloof double-edged incisive plain-spoken stringent
arbitrary dour inclement poignant subtle
arctic drastic indivisible precise subzero
arduous dreadful inerrable primal supercooled
aristocratic dry inerrant primary suppressive
arrogant dull inexorable primitive surly
ascetic edged infallible prosaic tart
asperous effortful inflexible prosing taxing
astringent elementary inhospitable prosy terminal
atrocious escharotic inhuman pungent thorny
austere essential inornate punishing ticklish
authoritarian even intemperate punitive toilsome
authoritative exact intense pure tormenting
autocratic exacting intensely pure and simple torturous
awful excessive intricate racking tough
badly excruciating iron-willed raw trenchant
bald exigent irreducible refined tricky
bare exorbitant irritating relentless truculent
basic express jawbreaking religious turbulent
bearish extravagant keen religiously exact tyrannical
beastly extreme knotted repressive tyrannous
below zero faithful knotty restrictive unadorned
biting fastidious laborious rigid unaffected
bitter fatal lean rigorous unbending
bitterly cold feudal lordly rigorously uncluttered
bleak fierce magisterial rough uncompromising
blistering fine magistral roughly unconscionable
bluff flinty markedly rugged undecorated
blunt forbidding masterful rustic undeviating
blustering formidable mathematical ruthless undifferenced
blustery frank matter-of-fact savage undifferentiated
boreal freezing mean scathing unelaborate
bossy freezing cold merciless scientific unembellished
brash frigid mere scientifically exact unerring
brisk fundamental meticulous self-disciplined unfancy
brumal furious micrometrically precise serious unfeeling
brusque gelid microscopic set with thorns unfussy
brutal glacial modest severe ungentle
burdensome glowering monastic severely uniform
candid gnawing monocratic sharp unimaginative
caustic grave monolithic shooting unornate
cavalier gravely mordacious short unpleasant
chaste great mordant simon-pure unpoetical
churlish grievous mortal simple unsmiling
close grim mortified simple-speaking unsparing
cold grinding natural single unsympathetic
cold as charity griping neat sleety unvarnished
cold as death gruff nice slushy unyielding
cold as ice hairy nipping smart uphill
cold as marble hard nippy snappy vehement
common hard-earned no picnic snippy venomous
commonplace hard-fought nose-tickling sober violent
complex hardly not easy sore virulent
constant harrowing numbing sour vitriolic
cramping harsh obdurate spare weighty
crimpy harshly of a piece sparse wicked