self-serious
English
Adjective
self-serious (comparative more self-serious, superlative most self-serious)
- Taking oneself too seriously, pretentiously and humorlessly convinced of one's own seriousness.
- 1995, Bill Garner, Seriously Now, Pelican Publishing:
- 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.
- 1998, Douglas Hobbie, This Time Last Year: A Novel:
- Elizabeth had never recorded any period of her existence, failing to grasp the point of an exercise so self-absorbed and self-serious.
- 2005, Paul Harvey, Philip Goff., The Columbia Documentary History of Religion in America:
- New Age is goofy, yet self-serious, with no sense of irony.
- 2021 September 22, Caroline Siede, “Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level”, in AV Club:
- 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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