Serious and Worse

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Serious adjective - Not joking or playful in mood or manner.

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Worse and serious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Worse" instead an adjective "Serious".

Nearby Words: seriously, seriousness

Worse adjective - (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability.

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Serious and worse are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Serious" instead an adjective "Worse".

Nearby Words: worst, worsen, worsening, worsened

You know the situation's serious when one calls the other "Kate" or "Rick"... and even worse when Castle calls Beckett "Katie".

Source: You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious
Unlike many events, this actually does cause serious issues: each change to the past she makes causes a Bad Future worse and worse than the last.

Source: Temporal Paradox
What's worse is that these people may want to mean serious things but other people take it to be sarcasm, causing great frustration, Poor Communication Kills and other trouble.

Source: Sarcasm-Blind

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