self-serious

adj

Etymology

From self- + serious.

  1. derived from *swer-
  2. derived from sērius
  3. derived from sēriōsus
  4. derived from serieux
  5. inherited from seryows
  6. prefixed as self-serious — “self + serious

Definitions

  1. Taking oneself too seriously, pretentiously and humorlessly convinced of one's own…

    Taking oneself too seriously, pretentiously and humorlessly convinced of one's own seriousness.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for self-serious. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA