Difference between Serious and Sobering

SERIOUS vs SOBERING: ADJECTIVE

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

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.
In earnest; not jesting or making pretense.
Important; weighty; not trifling.
Attended with danger; giving rise to apprehension: as, a serious illness.
Deeply impressed with the importance of religion; making profession of or pretension to religion.
Synonyms Solemn, etc. See grave.
1 and Sedate, staid, sober, earnest.
Great, momentous.

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

Tragic, Sombre, Disappointing, Alarming, Dismal, Worrisome, Instructive, Somber, Disturbing, Disquieting, Troubling, Gloomy, Bleak, Grim, Serious

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

Tragic, Sombre, Disappointing, Alarming, Dismal, Worrisome, Instructive, Somber, Disturbing, Disquieting, Troubling, Gloomy, Bleak, Grim, Serious

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.

Against that sobering assessment is some good news.
It is a most sobering and realistic picture.
Paul said some very pointed and sobering things.
Thesimulations that the staff ran were relatively sobering.
Pissing Off The Bartender Can Be A Sobering.
The reality is a little bit more sobering.
The facts about chemical production today are sobering.
Sobering to ead what these faithful saints endured!
Only inmates who continue to need the protective housing of a sobering cell willcontinue to be detained in such housing for purposes of sobering.
At our sobering Unit we have a central telephone screening process for both detoxification and sobering services.