earnest | Definition of earnest

earnest

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of earnest

a mental state free of jesting or trifling

I am in deadly earnest about this marriage proposal

Synonyms of earnest

earnestness, graveness, gravity, intentness, serious-mindedness, seriousness, soberness, sobriety, solemnity, solemnness, staidness

Words Related to earnest

gravitas, humorlessness

decisiveness, deliberation, determination, firmness, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolve

absorption, attentiveness, concentration, engrossment, enthrallment, immersion, intensity

Near Antonyms of earnest

lightness, shallowness, superficiality

dalliance, dilettantism

cheerfulness, gaiety (also gayety), glee, high-spiritedness, merriment, mirth

Antonyms of earnest

facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frivolousness, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, play, unseriousness