earnest
IPA: ˈɝnɪst
noun
- Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.
- Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence)
- A sum of money paid in advance as a deposit; hence, a pledge, a guarantee, an indication of something to come.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages, of occasional usage, variant of Ernest.
verb
- (transitive) To be serious with; use in earnest.
adjective
- (said of an action or an utterance) Serious, sincere, ingenuous.
- (with a positive sense) Focused in the pursuit of an objective; honestly eager to obtain or do.
- Intent; focused; showing a lot of concentration.
- (said of a person or a person's character) Possessing or characterised by seriousness.
- Strenuous; diligent.
- Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important.
Examples of "earnest" in Sentences
- He was an earnest soul, hankering for truth.
- In 1995, the GIA turned on the AIS in earnest.
- In the spring of 1940, when the Battle of France was in earnest
- Surveying efforts of the California coastline began in earnest in.
- She is a charming little actress, dainty, earnest, and unaffected.
- The category started to fill up in earnest after the Enlightenment.
- Ladies of the Earnest Workers Society were the housekeepers of the church.
- The assumption of earnestness does not entail the assessment of neutrality.
- Jeffrey makes the meeting with the producer and begins to write in earnest.
- Demolition of the hulking superstructure began in earnest shortly thereafter.