Synonym: decided, determined, devoted, resolute, serious, sincere. Antonym: idle, indolent, lazy. Similar words: wilderness, learn, nest, earnings, learn from, honestly, early warning, year after year. Meaning: ['ɜːnɪst] 
n. something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract. adj. 1. characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions 2. earnest 3. not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal.
n. something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract. adj. 1. characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions 2. earnest 3. not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal. 
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1. In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail. 
2. Campaigning will begin in earnest tomorrow.
3. He was a very earnest young man.
4. Life is real, life is earnest.
5. Matthews was in earnest conversation with a young girl.
6. The girl's earnest effort counterbalanced her slowness at learning.
7. Despite her earnest efforts, she could not find a job.
8. When I looked over, he was in earnest conversation with his father.
9. On life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
10. It is my earnest wish that you use this money to continue you study of music.
11. Her earnest manner arrested me.
12. That was when our troubles started in earnest.
13. He was in deadly earnest .
14. On December 8 the media blitz began in earnest.
15. On Monday your training begins in earnest !
16. He is earnest in his endeavors.
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17. You may laugh but I'm in deadly earnest.
18. Ella was a pious, earnest woman.
19. Life is real and earnest.
20. The election campaign has begun in earnest.
21. I could tell she spoke in earnest.
22. As an earnest of my good intentions I will reconsider your request.
23. I'm sure he was in earnest when he said he wanted to marry her.
24. Robert is a very earnest young man; you can trust him.
25. He was in earnest when he said he was leaving Beijing.
26. As an earnest of my good intentions I will work overtime this week.
27. His job as England manager begins in earnest now his World Cup campaign is in motion.
28. Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest.
29. When she threatened to report us, she was in dead earnest.
30. I thought he was joking - I didn't realize he was in earnest.
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