Word Meanings - EARNESTFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Serious. Chaucer.

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• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• JOCOSERIOUS
  Mingling mirth and seriousness. M. Green.