: not serious
people convicted of nonserious crimes
… she occasionally likes to play around with nonserious painting, exploring color and texture. Nicole D'Amore

Examples of nonserious in a Sentence

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The agency’s telephone and online reporting units, also meant to help address staffing concerns, can take nonserious police reports that don’t require a sworn officer’s response. Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 7 June 2023 To a certain extent, the debate simply shows how tangled our feelings about fashion still are and how entrenched the view of it as a nonserious subject remains — despite the fact that fashion is a key part of pop culture and the rare equivalent of a global language. New York Times, 28 July 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1822, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of nonserious was in 1822

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“Nonserious.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonserious. Accessed 17 Feb. 2025.

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