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in earnest

 
Adjective in earnest has 1 sense
  1. earnest, in earnest, sincere, solemn - characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; "both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate"; "an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant"; "a film with a solemn social message"
    Antonym: frivolous (indirect, via serious)
Adverbial in earnest has 1 sense
  1. seriously, earnestly, in earnest - in a serious manner; "talking earnestly with his son"; "she started studying snakes in earnest"; "a play dealing seriously with the question of divorce"
in dispute in disrepair in disrepair predicate in due course in due season in due time in duplicate in dutch in earnest in effect in essence in everyone s thoughts in evidence in evitible in explainable in extremis in fact

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