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earnestadjective not joking or playful in mood or mannerI'll accept only an earnest apology from you grave, humorless, no-nonsense, po-faced(British), sedate, serious, severe, sober, sobersided, solemn, staid, uncomic, unsmiling, weighty harsh, stern, strictbusinesslike, professionaldignified, distinguished, elevated, serious-mindedgloomy, grim facetious, flip, flippant, humorous, jesting, jocular, joking, kittenish, ludic, playful antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, hysterical(also hysteric), laughable, light, light-headed, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, uproariousfeatherbrained, flighty, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, lighthearted, puerile, scatterbrainedabsurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, fatuous, foolish, half-witted, insane, jerky, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, unwise, wacky(also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany a mental state free of jesting or triflingI am in deadly earnest about this marriage proposal earnestness, graveness, gravity, intentness, serious-mindedness, seriousness, soberness, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness, staidness gravitas, humorlessnessdecisiveness, deliberation, determination, firmness, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolveabsorption, attentiveness, concentration, engrossment, enthrallment, immersion, intensity facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frivolousness, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, play, unseriousness lightness, shallowness, superficialitydalliance, dilettantismcheerfulness, gaiety(also gayety), glee, high-spiritedness, merriment, mirth adj.serious, grave, solemn, sedate, staid, sober, earnest mean not light or frivolous.serious implies a concern for what really matters.a serious play about social injustice grave implies both seriousness and dignity in expression or attitude.read the proclamation in a grave voice solemn suggests an impressive gravity utterly free from levity.a sad and solemn occasion sedate implies a composed and decorous seriousness.remained sedate amid the commotion staid suggests a settled, accustomed sedateness and prim self-restraint.a quiet and staid community sober stresses seriousness of purpose and absence of levity or frivolity.a sober look at the state of our schools earnest suggests sincerity or often zealousness of purpose.an earnest reformer before the 12th century |