take seriously
Verb
Meaning
take seriously (third-person singular simple present takes seriously, present participle taking seriously, simple past took seriously, past participle taken seriously)
(transitive) To consider (something /what somebody is saying) important and meaningful.
Synonym: take to heart
Antonyms: take lightly, make light of
Examples
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, "I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection". I have dubbed this kind of fallacy "the Argument from Personal Incredulity". Time and again, it has proven the prelude to an intellectual banana-skin experience.
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
Don't take seriously the cat who mourns for a mouse.