Meaning of self-serious | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

“Relatable in neither its bizarrely specific plotting nor its broadly generic emotions, Dear Evan Hansen is so self-serious that it almost plays like self-parody, only without any “so bad it’s good” fun. We may all be striving for human connection right now, but we’re unlikely to find any here.”

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