Determining
Determining adjective - Having the power or quality of deciding.
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Serious and determining are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Serious" instead an adjective "Determining".
Serious
Serious adjective - Not joking or playful in mood or manner.
Determining and serious are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Determining" instead an adjective "Serious".
Nearby Words: seriously, seriousness
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- In earlier seasons, Patty was merely uninterested in dating, and actually had a serious relationship with Seymour Skinner before determining that she couldn't abandon Selma.
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Both his serious stories and his more comical ones tend to be written in the same overall tone, with only certain details and The Reveal at the end determining whether the overall effect is either spine-chilling or morbidly amusing.
Source: Creator / Edgar Allan Poe - Being that that sketch involves the Viking Historical Paramedics determining the seriousness of a wound by tasting the injured person's blood, it's fair enough that this has something to the effect of "do not do this, EVER, WE ARE SERIOUS, NEVER" plastered underneath it.
Source: Series / Horrible Histories
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