Completely lacking in playfulness
English: unplayful, serious, sober
Bahasa: serius, waras, bersungguh-sungguh
sungguh-sungguhBahasa Indonesia
earnest, serious, businesslike, sincere, sober
Common
#3,516 of the corpus · 29.6 per million words · 126,604 occurrences
From sungguh (reduplication) · very common, #545
Adjective
Concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities
English: serious
Bahasa: serius
Less certain link between this word and this sense.
Characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
English: earnest, sincere, solemn
Bahasa: gigih
Less certain link between this word and this sense.
1 more adjective senses
Not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal
English: businesslike, earnest
Less certain link between this word and this sense.