Usually means: Sincerely, with serious intention, zealously.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word earnestly:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. earnestly: Merriam-Webster
  2. earnestly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. earnestly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. earnestly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Earnestly, earnestly: Wordnik
  6. earnestly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. earnestly: Wiktionary
  8. Earnestly, earnestly: Dictionary.com
  9. earnestly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Earnestly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. earnestly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. earnestly: Rhymezone
  13. Earnestly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. earnestly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. earnestly: FreeDictionary.org
  16. earnestly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. earnestly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earnestly: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. earnestly: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (earnestly)

▸ adverb:  In an earnest manner; being very sincere; putting forth genuine effort.

Similar:
in earnest, seriously, sincerely, overearnestly, agood, genuinely, heart and soul, full-heartedly, effortfully, trueheartedly, more...

Opposite:
flippantly, casually, superficially, lightly

Phrases:
request earnestly, say earnestly, ask earnestly, earnestly ask, beg someone earnestly, more...

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    burnt sienna,     deep maroon,     forest green,     midnight blue,     burgundy, more...



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Similar:
in earnest, seriously, sincerely, overearnestly, agood, genuinely, heart and soul, full-heartedly, effortfully, trueheartedly, more...

Opposite:
flippantly, casually, superficially, lightly

Phrases:
request earnestly, say earnestly, ask earnestly, earnestly ask, beg someone earnestly, requested earnestly, earnestly wishes, to ask earnestly for, urge earnestly, appealed earnestly, said earnestly, more...

Colors:
    burnt sienna,     deep maroon,     forest green,     midnight blue,     burgundy, more...



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