seriously Copy link Outline 1. sĕvērē (in earnest)2. grăvĭter (more than a little, so as to make it no trifling matter)3. sērio (opp. to the notion of joke)4. by circuml. with jŏcus • seriously: 1. sĕvērē (in earnest): to write to a person rather s., severius ad aliquem scribere, Caes. B. C. 3, 25, fin.: Cic. 2. grăvĭter (more than a little, so as to make it no trifling matter): to be s. ill, g. aegrotare, Cic. Off. 1, 10, 32: I am s. enraged with you by Pollux, tibi Aedepol iratus sum g., Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 2: citizens most s. disagreeing, cives gravissime dissentientes, Cic. Phil. 12, 11, 27. 3. sērio (opp. to the notion of joke): Join: joco et serio: I do not know whether he says these things in joke or s., jocon' an s. ille haec dicat nescio, Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 30: cf. Liv. 7, 41, med. (joco seriove) and Pl. Am. 3, 2, 25 (nec joco nec serio). 4. by circuml. with jŏcus: cf. Cic. Fam. 7, 16, med. (sed mehercules extra jocum, homo bellus est) and ib. 11, fin. (remoto joco, tibi praecipio).
SERIOUSLY Copy link • SERIOUSLYsevere: serio, extra jocum (without joke): ex animo (from the heart): graviter (with dignity or gravity).