Synonyms

1. earnest
2. sincere

Sentence Examples

1. Announcing his intention to the bachelor, he asked his advice as to the quarter in which he ought to commence his expedition, and the bachelor replied that in his opinion he ought to go to the kingdom of Aragon, and the city of Saragossa, where there were to be certain solemn joustings at the festival of St.
2. As the evening drew on, and the earth took its shadows from the sun sinking lower, the silence of the room grew more and more solemn to me.
3. Used in Christianity to invoke the Holy Spirit during solemn occasions and sacraments, in the ancient healing art of Reiki they help to balance the energies within the body.
4. In return, you must swear a solemn oath never to reveal their presence to anyone else even, in fact especially, to the king.
5. We exchanged solemn looks, but I smiled at him gratefully.
6. Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.
7. Nishley gave him a solemn glance, searching for any sign of change.
8. All manner of solemn nonsense was talked on the subject, but I believed none of it.
9. His manner was a wild mixture of the peevishness of second childhood, and the solemn dignity of a God.
10. So as we all took hands our solemn compact was made.