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earnest

/ur-nist/US // ˈɜr nɪst //UK // (ˈɜːnɪst) //

认真的,恳切,恳切的,严肃的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : serious and zealous in intention, purpose, or effort: an earnest worker.
    • : showing depth and sincerity of feeling: earnest words; an earnest entreaty.
    • : seriously important; demanding or receiving serious attention.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : seriousness and zealousness: to speak in earnest.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.very enthusiastic
Antonyms
adj.serious; very important
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Examples

  • So good that even if you forget what they were advertising — Coca-Cola — you’ll remember the fearsome Pittsburgh Steeler defensive tackle and the earnest young fan and everything it said, or didn’t need to say, about race.

  • Prototyping on the game’s movement systems started before development on the game began in earnest.

  • He also earned his first Emmy nomination for his voice-over performance in “Central Park,” the earnest and eccentric Apple TV Plus animated series.

  • My hope for 2021 is to see more of these ideas explored and adopted in earnest.

  • Vaccinating the world will be perhaps the single greatest global challenge of 2021, and that process is now beginning in earnest.

  • It almost makes you wonder if Lizard Squad did this just to annoy Anonymous and the other earnest champions of privacy.

  • He becomes especially earnest when the conversation turns to his role as The Baker in Into the Woods.

  • Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was as provocative as Hammerstein, though with a much less earnest, more whimsical sensibility.

  • The US first considered the idea in the 1820s, but interest was revived in earnest after the California Gold Rush began in 1849.

  • Few politicians garner the celebrity that Senator Booker does, and fewer still seem so earnest and human while doing it.

  • The hum of earnest or glad voices here contrasted strongly with silence and meditation there.

  • This is a slow process, but earnest hearts and united minds will render it a sure one.

  • The earnest youth grinding at the academic mill has dreamed it in the pauses of his studious labor.

  • We made the freight camp, however, just as the storm cut loose in deadly earnest.

  • A remarkable man he was indeed; simple and earnest in manner, with a fine eye, a full dark beard and sunburnt face.