Harrowing
Serious
Serious adjective - Not joking or playful in mood or manner.
Harrowing and serious are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Harrowing" instead an adjective "Serious".
Nearby Words: seriously, seriousness
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You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Hopps and Wilde have just taken a long, harrowing fall into deep water.
Source: Disney / Zootopia - The Porter Scene in The Scottish Play is either a welcome bit of comic relief in the middle of a harrowing story, or else a completely incongruous digression possibly thrown in by some other writer who preferred fart jokes to serious theatre.
Source: BLAM / Theater
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