Difference between Serious and Important

SERIOUS vs IMPORTANT: ADJECTIVE

Requiring or carried out with careful thought or concern.
Intended for sophisticated people.
Deeply interested or involved.
Concerned with important rather than trivial matters.
Not joking or trifling.
Of considerable size or scope; substantial.
Being of such import as to cause anxiety.
Not easily answered or solved.
Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
Completely lacking in playfulness
Appealing to the mind
Requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve
Of great consequence
Careful in thought, full of concern, or restrained and dignified in manner; somber or grave.
Concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities
Important; weighty; not trifling; leaving no room for play; needing great attention; critical.
Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn.
Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger.
Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.
Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.
Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.

Having relevant and crucial value.
Importunate; pressing; urgent.
Bearing on; forcible; driving.
Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.
Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.
Importunate.
Having high social rank or influence; prominent.
Strongly affecting the course of events or the nature of things; significant.
Of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis
Having authority or ascendancy or influence
Having or suggesting a consciousness of high position
Of great significance or value
Important in effect or meaning

1 and Sedate, staid, sober, earnest.
Great, momentous.
Deeply impressed with the importance of religion; making profession of or pretension to religion.
Attended with danger; giving rise to apprehension: as, a serious illness.
Important; weighty; not trifling.
In earnest; not jesting or making pretense.
Grave in feeling, manner, or disposition; solemn; earnest; not light, gay, or volatile; of things, springing from, expressing, or inducing gravity or earnestness of feeling.
Synonyms Solemn, etc. See grave.

Of much import; bearing weight or consequence; momentous; grave; significant.
Consequential; pretentious; pompous: as, an important manner.
Of extreme importance
Vital to the resolution of a crisis
[Appar. confused with importunate. Cf. importunate, 1.] Importunate; eager; pressing.

Sober, Earnest, Difficult, Sincere, Thoughtful, Sensible, Good, Important, Sobering, Real, Critical, Dangerous, Grave, Grievous, Severe

Decisive, Remarkable, Great, Influential, Momentous, Significant, Noteworthy, Fundamental, Useful, Pivotal, Valuable, Key, Critical, Essential, Crucial

Sober, Earnest, Difficult, Sincere, Thoughtful, Sensible, Good, Important, Sobering, Real, Critical, Dangerous, Grave, Grievous, Severe

Decisive, Remarkable, Great, Influential, Momentous, Significant, Noteworthy, Fundamental, Useful, Pivotal, Valuable, Key, Critical, Essential, Crucial

The product may fall, causing serious injury to a child or adult and serious damage to the product.
For the most part, detention is a punishment for students who commit minor problems, and school reserve more serious punishments for more serious infractions.
Imagine a scenario where there has been a serious crime in a town and the Sheriff is trying to prevent serious rioting.
Filing a crash report is important for serious car accidents, but also for less serious scenarios.
There was a time when psychedelics were a serious medicine under serious study, especially for alcoholics.
We have serious golf tools for serious golfers, and some clever gadgets just for fun!
Appoints serious accident investigation teams or trained investigators for the investigation of serious accidents.
Our national discussion of hateful speech is deadly serious, and calls for a serious approach, not empty rhetoric.
Serious tal llness: Serious mental illness is defined differently across programs, policies, and in research literature.
Posts tagged serious or of a serious nature may be subject to higher scrutiny.

It is also important that we hear MPs.
Africa play an important role in human diseases.
What other tests are important with this disease?
Use emphasis sparingly, for your most important info.
All very important factors again in analyzing precedent.
It is important that procedures are followed, but it is also important that it can be shown and proved that procedures were followed.
It is important to look at your objectives for your retirement years to determine if it is important to protect your assets.
The President is important to the extent that the federal government is important.
Students illustrate an important event in the book and then explain in writing what took place and why it was important.
Building regulations have an important role to play, but we should not forget the important role of planning.