Usually means: Sincere and intense in purpose.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word earnest:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. earnest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. earnest, earnest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. earnest, earnest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. earnest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. earnest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Earnest, earnest: Wordnik
  7. earnest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Earnest, earnest: Wiktionary
  9. earnest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. earnest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. earnest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Earnest, earnest: Dictionary.com
  13. earnest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. earnest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Earnest (company), Earnest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Earnest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. earnest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. earnest: Rhymezone
  19. earnest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. earnest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. earnest: Free Dictionary
  22. earnest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. earnest: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. earnest: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. earnest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earnest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. EARNEST: Acronym Finder
  3. earnest: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Earnest: Easton Bible
  2. Earnest: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. earnest: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. earnest: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See earnestly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.
noun:  Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence)
verb:  (transitive) To be serious with; use in earnest.
adjective:  (said of an action or an utterance) Serious, sincere, ingenuous.
adjective:  (with a positive sense) Focused in the pursuit of an objective; honestly eager to obtain or do.
adjective:  Intent; focused; showing a lot of concentration.
adjective:  (said of a person or a person's character) Possessing or characterised by seriousness.
adjective:  Strenuous; diligent.
adjective:  Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important.
noun:  A sum of money paid in advance as a deposit; hence, a pledge, a guarantee, an indication of something to come.
noun:  A male given name from the Germanic languages, of occasional usage, variant of Ernest.

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