Local English word record

earnestly

adverb · 1 sense

in a serious manner

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Examples

  • talking earnestly with his son
  • she started studying snakes in earnest
  • a play dealing seriously with the question of divorce

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Synonyms

seriously, in earnest

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Princeton WordNet 3.0