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Bleeding vs Seriousness - What's the difference?

bleeding | seriousness |

As nouns the difference between bleeding and seriousness

is that bleeding is the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel while seriousness is the state or quality of being serious.

As a verb bleeding

is .

As an adjective bleeding

is (uk|slang) (used as an intensifier) extreme, outright.

As an adverb bleeding

is (uk|slang) (used as an intensifier) extremely.

bleeding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * bleeding heart

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (UK, slang) (used as an intensifier) extreme, outright.
  • * "You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all." — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.software.year-2000/msg/ba82c9dd28cde368]
  • *{{quote-web
    • , year = 2004 , author = DrusillaDax , title = Battlefields , site = Sensus Fanfiction Archive , url = http://www.noiresensus.com/bookshelf/harrypotter/battlefields24.html , accessdate = 2014-10-08 }}
    "You are a bleeding idiot sometimes, but I love you and", Harry hands him the first gift Severus ever gave him and says, "One hundred and sixteen."

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (UK, slang) (used as an intensifier) Extremely.
    • His car's motor is bleeding smoking down the motorway.
    It turns out he was too bleeding cheap to ever drain the oil.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic
  • (medicine, historical) bloodletting

    • Related terms

    * bleeder * bleedingly * blood * bloody English degree adverbs English intensifiers

    seriousness

    English

    Noun

  • The state or quality of being serious.
  • *, chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness . But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness . ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.