Solemn
['sɒləm] or ['sɑləm]
Definition
(a.) Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.
(a.) Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.
(a.) Stately; ceremonious; grand.
(a.) Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.
(a.) Real; earnest; downright.
(a.) Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.
(a.) Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.
Checker: Paulette
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Formal, ritual, ceremonial.[2]. Sacred, religious, devout, reverential, devotional.[3]. Serious, grave, sober.[4]. Awful, august, venerable, imposing, grand, stately, majestic.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sacred, formal, devotional, reverential, ritual, ceremonial, impressive,religious, grave, serious
ANT:Profane, undevotional, secular, light, gay, trivial, unceremonial, informal,unsolemn
Checker: Michelle
Definition
adj. attended with religions ceremonies pomp or gravity originally taking place every year said esp. of religious ceremonies: impressing with seriousness: awful: devout: having the appearance of gravity: devotional: attended with an appeal to God as an oath: serious: sober gloomy black.—n. Solemnisā′tion.—v.t. Sol′emnise to perform religiously or solemnly once a year or periodically: to celebrate with due rites: to render grave.—ns. Sol′emniser; Solem′nity a solemn religious ceremony: a ceremony adapted to inspire with awe: reverence: seriousness: affected gravity.—adv. sol′emnly.—n. Sol′emnness.
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Examples
- Jo went and sat on one arm of the chair, looking as if she thought they were about to join in some very solemn affair. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The address was solemn and impressive; the sentence fearful to hear. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Its tone was indeed solemn and pervasive. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- How very serious--how very solemn you look: and you are as ignorant of the matter as this cameo head (taking one from the mantelpiece). Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- While there was hope, the agony had been unendurable;--all was now concluded; her feelings became solemn and calm. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His nature was not changed by one hour of solemn prayer: it was only elevated. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I think he must have lived among a lot of people who were very solemn, because I went out riding with him in the Bois de Boulogne and started in to tell him American stories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But you tutors are such solemn chaps; it is almost like speaking to a parson to consult with you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They had risen to their feet, and were standing looking at that solemn altar, so noble in its hugeness amid the encircling green. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The great men of the city met in solemn conclave to consider how the difficulty was to be met. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was a very solemn place. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The whole time he heard neither voice nor tread--nothing but the faint music playing a solemn march. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mrs. Threadgall dropped her head right into her tucker, and, in a lower voice still, repeated the solemn words, My beloved husband is no more. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He should have addressed her at once in solemn accents, and with rigid mien. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The motions of these men were slow and solemn, as if there impended over their souls some preconception of horror and of cruelty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She was not nervous or impressible; but the solemn, heart-felt manner struck her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Standing hand-in-hand, they both looked down upon the solemn countenance. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But soon, he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The noble and solemn air with which Rebecca made this appeal, gave it double weight with the fair Saxon. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Eleven o'clock has just struck, in a ghostly and solemn manner, from a turret over the centre of the house, which I saw when I came in. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mr. Dashwood's strains were more solemn. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Any solemn rite, any spectacle of sincere worship, any opening for appeal to God was as welcome to me then as bread to one in extremity of want. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- At this sally another special laughed, and then tried to look so supernaturally solemn, that the magistrate detected him immediately. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Not them Mounds without,' said Mr Wegg, extending his right hand with an air of solemn reasoning, 'encouragement? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was essentially solemn and I had never known him when we were alone to laugh at anything. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A solemn silence; Mr. Pickwick humorous, the old lady serious, the fat gentleman captious, and Mr. Miller timorous. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And the boudoir-oratoire--you should make that room your study; it is so quiet and solemn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Lonely musings, interminable wanderings, and solemn music were her only pastimes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I have looked in her face with solemn awe, when she would point up to the stars in the evening, and say to me, 'See there, Auguste! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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