Word "EARNEST" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
Synonyms:
sincere, solemn
Examples:
both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal
Synonyms:
businesslike

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
sincerely earnest
Synonyms:
dear, devout, heartfelt

Crossword Clues for EARNEST

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Serious musical ability: something birds build up (7) The Sun Two Speed 24 Aug 2025
Sincere (7) Puzzler 24 Aug 2025
Corrupt eastern firm (7) The Sun Two Speed 17 Aug 2025
Sincere-sounding fellow (7) Mirror Cryptic 28 Jul 2025
Serious (7) Mirror Quick 28 Jul 2025
Sincere Commuter 19 Jul 2025
Serious in intention (7) The Times Concise 09 Jul 2025
Serious point about service close to home (7)
The Importance of Being ___, comedy by Oscar Wilde (7) Puzzler 24 Jun 2025
Sincere Commuter 18 Jun 2025
Republican in Senate potentially sincere The Sun Two Speed 09 Jun 2025
Heartfelt The Sun Two Speed 09 Jun 2025
Set out to make money beforehand: serious (7)
The Importance of Being _ 1895 Oscar Wilde play (7)
Are moving home. It's serious (7)
Serious The Telegraph Quick 20 May 2025
Pledge given by listener sent packing (7)
Sincere The Telegraph Quick 08 May 2025
Promise new senate full of Republicans (7)
Not joking around
Thoughtful article about Hemingway? On the contrary
A pledge that may be sincere (7)
Serious British composer residing in the east of France
Sincere, heartfelt Mirror Tea Time 24 Apr 2025
English composer's time to be serious (7)
Serious The Sun Mini 13 Apr 2025
Sincere The Telegraph Quick 09 Apr 2025
Serious attention at home (7)
Makes time to welcome earl demanding serious attention The Times Cryptic 04 Apr 2025
Token payment shows one is serious (7)
Serious alteration to sneer at The Times Quick Cryptic 28 Mar 2025
Sincere to mostly learn Estonian(7)
Honest hearing organ to settle (7)
Sincere, very serious
Firm guarantee The Sun Two Speed 22 Mar 2025
Heartfelt The Sun Two Speed 22 Mar 2025
Heartfelt LA Times Daily 21 Mar 2025
Sneer at Rocky for being determined
Serious merit is from France The Times Quick Cryptic 25 Feb 2025
Sneer at drunk getting sober The Telegraph Cryptic 18 Feb 2025
Firm answer man accepts The Sun Two Speed 11 Feb 2025
Sincere The Sun Two Speed 11 Feb 2025
Firm makes tons conserving energy The Telegraph Toughie 06 Feb 2025
Sincere and heartfelt
Serious about a boy (7)
Eastern promise, perhaps (7)
Heartfelt The Sun Two Speed 02 Feb 2025
Sneer at failing firm The Sun Two Speed 02 Feb 2025
Sneer at (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 01 Feb 2025
Eastern design deserving to be taken seriously
Sincere The Telegraph Quick 30 Jan 2025
Zealous, serious (7)
Security for luggage beginning to go at retreat (7)
Intent on Eastern reformation (7)
Sneer at (anag) - serious (7)
Man said it's a pledge (7)
Sincere boy's spoken (7)
Sincere Mirror Classic 05 Jan 2025
Serious and sincere
Sincere The Sun Two Speed 26 Dec 2024
Restructured eastern firm The Sun Two Speed 26 Dec 2024
Concentrated on eastern disturbance (7)
Being sincere, listens to what a bird really needs (7)
Sincere The Sun Two Speed 06 Dec 2024
Firm answer Hemingway accepts? The Sun Two Speed 06 Dec 2024
The grave nature of dear Nester and Bob (7)
Makes time to acquire European firm The Telegraph Cryptic 05 Dec 2024
The Importance of Being ___, play by Oscar Wilde (7)
Sincere The Telegraph Quick 26 Nov 2024
Sincere listener set up home (7) Puzzler Cryptic 22 Nov 2024
Seamen (English) in Orient are serious (7)
Solemn, are flying home (7)
Republican in senate corrupt or sincere? The Sun Two Speed 10 Nov 2024
Heartfelt The Sun Two Speed 10 Nov 2024
Serious Mirror Quick 08 Nov 2024
Sincere-sounding fellow Mirror Cryptic 08 Nov 2024
"Politics is not a game. It is an ___ business": Winston Churchill (7)
Serious point about runner at intervals (7)
Sincere The Sun Two Speed 27 Oct 2024
Firm answer Hemingway accepts? The Sun Two Speed 27 Oct 2024
Eastern novel is heartfelt (7)
It's wildly important to be sincere (7)
Enters hurriedly and takes a downpayment (7)
Serious, eager (7)
Determined to deserve change of set (7)
Lug home payment to secure contract (7) The Guardian Cryptic 18 Oct 2024
Sincere pledge (7)
Serious in purpose
Intensely serious (7)
Republican in Senate fixed and firm The Sun Two Speed 02 Oct 2024
Sincere The Sun Two Speed 02 Oct 2024
Serious merit to dropping Test opener (7)
Serious-minded pledge (7)
Serious man, say (7)
Sincere man, they say (7) Puzzler Cryptic 17 Sep 2024
Sneer at (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 14 Sep 2024
Serious in mind or intention (7)
Intent listener near a bird sanctuary (7)
Absolutely serious eastern winds The Sun Two Speed 01 Sep 2024
Sincere The Sun Two Speed 01 Sep 2024
Eastern organisation is sincere (7) Puzzler Cryptic 16 Aug 2024
Sincere Eastern reform (7)
Serious article grasped by a man (7)
A serious "Art thou paid for thy work?" (7)
Determined The Telegraph Quick 17 Jul 2024
Serious; sincere The Telegraph Quick 11 Jul 2024
Play, The Importance of Being ______- (7)
Serious The Telegraph Quick 02 Jul 2024
Serious listener at front of home (7) The Guardian Quiptic 30 Jun 2024
Serious Eastern problem (7)
Sincere chap seen about midday (7)
Art seen somehow to be serious (7)
Realise Parisian is sober The Telegraph Toughie 12 Jun 2024
The Importance of Being ___, Oscar Wilde play (7) Puzzler 10 Jun 2024
Nearest production by important character in play (7)
The Importance of Being ___, 2002 film starring Colin Firth (7)
Whole-hearted attention applied to a comfortable residence (7)
Serious attention given by bird sanctuary (7)
Sincere or serious-minded
Serious as a Sterne novel can be (7)
Sneer at efforts to be sincere and serious (7)
Sincere New York Times 30 May 2024
Make money and set out to be serious
Sincere (7) The Guardian Quick 27 May 2024
Sincere The Sun Two Speed 23 May 2024
One boy was serious about giving a payment as part of a bargain (7)
Firm answer man accepts The Sun Two Speed 23 May 2024
Are traveling home. It's serious (7)
Serious organ music causes vibrations in home
Sincere The Telegraph Quick 14 May 2024
Some characters learn estimations with sincere intentions
Ardent listener gets egg holder (7)
Are moving home: it must be serious (7)
France regularly gets involved in the orient, it is keen (7)
Serious listener has comfortable home The Times Quick Cryptic 01 May 2024
Listener to settle, being sincere (7)
Ardent enough to gain entitlement to set out (7)
Eastern confusion is serious and sincere (7)
Serious listener at home (7)
Heartfelt USA Today 15 Apr 2024
Grave, resting place for listener?
Are playing at home and it's serious (7)
Sincere, serious (7)
Serious Eastern muddle (7)
Sincere The Sun Two Speed 22 Mar 2024
Firm answer man accepts The Sun Two Speed 22 Mar 2024
Oscar Wilde's play which was made into a film starring Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans and Margaret Rutherford, The Importance Of Being ...
Serious about eastern organisation (7)
Michael Redgrave played the lead in Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being ...
Sincere New York Times 11 Mar 2024
The sincere listener is sent packing (7)
Sounds like chap's intensely serious (7) Puzzler Cryptic 21 Feb 2024
Make money and set out to be sincere (7)
Keen to make way without drug
Deadly serious about keeping ear to bird's home (7)
Sincere The Guardian Quick 13 Feb 2024
Sincere change for eastern characters (7)
Serious attention drawn to machine-gun emplacement? The Times Cryptic 09 Feb 2024
Serious Eastern problems (7)
Desecration of nearest grave (7)
Down payment direction to procure printer frequently (7)
Arden set out, losing five hundred deposit (7)
Sincere listener's home (7)
Serious attention drawn to machine-gun emplacement? The Sun Two Speed 20 Dec 2023
Sincere The Sun Two Speed 20 Dec 2023
Eastern eccentric appears sincere (7) Puzzler Cryptic 20 Dec 2023
Sincere Mirror Classic 10 Dec 2023
Sincere, heartfelt Mirror Tea Time 08 Dec 2023
Unsmiling, are prepared to get sent off (7)
Serious or overly so
Serious king left to go home (7)
Grave bearing a man's name (7)
What completes the title of the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being ___ ? (7)
Serious art seen destroyed (7) Puzzler Cryptic 07 Nov 2023
Heartfelt Thomas Joseph 20 Oct 2023
Solemn The Telegraph Quick 15 Sep 2023
Serious The Guardian Quick 06 Sep 2023
Serious listener gets a cosy spot? The Guardian Quiptic 21 Aug 2023
Serious point about France regularly ignored The Times Cryptic 17 Aug 2023
Serious The Telegraph Quick 08 Aug 2023
Heartfelt Thomas Joseph 07 Aug 2023
Sincerely zealous Wall Street Journal 01 Aug 2023
Serious Wall Street Journal 20 Jun 2023
Serious The Telegraph Quick 11 Jun 2023
Serious Parisian is touring near Barking The Telegraph Cryptic 10 May 2023
Sincere The Times Concise 09 May 2023
Sincere Newsday 05 Apr 2023
Sincere Newsday 29 Mar 2023
Serious wear in vest when all tops are removed The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Mar 2023
Sincere in intention The Telegraph Quick 06 Mar 2023
Solemn; intense The Telegraph Quick 23 Dec 2022
Sincere Thomas Joseph 18 Nov 2022
Heartfelt Premier Sunday 30 Oct 2022
Genuine Family Time 30 Oct 2022
Determined to broadcast Hemingway, for example The Guardian Cryptic 25 Oct 2022
Serious man’s given a hearing The Times Cryptic 29 Sep 2022
Sincere Family Time 18 Sep 2022
Very serious The Times Concise 10 Aug 2022
Serious pledge The Times Cryptic 08 Aug 2022
Nearest (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 24 Jul 2022
Heading across France occasionally to find grave The Guardian Cryptic 15 Jul 2022
Heading across France occasionally to find grave
Serious art seen to become silly The Times Cryptic 13 Jul 2022
Solemn The Telegraph Quick 12 Jul 2022
Heartfelt USA Today 02 Jul 2022
The queen must keep a home deposit The Telegraph Cryptic 04 May 2022
The Importance of Being ... (Oscar Wilde) Irish Times Simplex 18 Apr 2022
Zealous Premier Sunday 06 Mar 2022
Sincere in one's beliefs The Washington Post Sunday 20 Feb 2022
Firm is paid to smuggle ecstasy on time
Acquire drug on street, getting intense The Guardian Quiptic 07 Feb 2022
Acquire drug on street, getting intense
Serious type enters a rave Irish Times Crosaire 05 Feb 2022
Absolutely serious eastern winds
Make money and set out to become dedicated
Serious tear in vest when tops are removed The Telegraph Cryptic 21 Dec 2021
Genuine and sincere Family Time 13 Dec 2021
Eastern (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 11 Dec 2021
Sounds like Hemingway is serious The Guardian Quiptic 06 Dec 2021
Sounds like Hemingway is serious
Wholehearted Wall Street Journal 14 Oct 2021
Republican in Senate unusually sincere The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Jun 2021
Austere English composer's blocking film
7 get established The Telegraph Toughie 08 Apr 2021
Heartfelt The Sun Two Speed 26 Mar 2021
Firm answer Hemingway accepts? The Sun Two Speed 26 Mar 2021
Serious eastern novel
Not kidding The Washington Post 21 Feb 2021
Not kidding LA Times Daily 21 Feb 2021
The Importance of Being ... (Oscar Wilde) Irish Times Simplex 18 Feb 2021
Sincere answer Hemingway accepts?
Bring in different set, getting serious The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Dec 2020
Serious type enters a rave Irish Times Crosaire 26 Dec 2020
Listener starts to need expert solvers to be serious
Serious from outset, deserve to be ahead
Sneer at restructured firm The Sun Two Speed 15 Nov 2020
Sincere The Sun Two Speed 15 Nov 2020
Republican in senate corrupt or sincere? The Sun Two Speed 02 Nov 2020
Corrupt eastern firm The Sun Two Speed 09 Sep 2020
Serious listener, home later
Sincere The Telegraph Quick 26 Jul 2020
Serious, sincere Irish Times Simplex 17 Jul 2020
Grave Wall Street Journal 09 Jul 2020
Republican in Senate fixed and firm The Sun Two Speed 05 Jul 2020
Very serious sign of what is to come
Sincere New York Times 05 Jun 2020
Firm answer man accepts The Sun Two Speed 03 Jun 2020
… assurance to win tight set
Restructured eastern firm The Sun Two Speed 18 May 2020
Heartfelt The Washington Post 10 May 2020
Heartfelt LA Times Daily 10 May 2020
Serious film about composer, humourless ultimately
Serious art making money?
Keen to notice hideout
Very serious The Times Concise 31 Dec 2019
Arse whipped with net – very serious
Utterly serious Wall Street Journal 21 Dec 2019
Ardent runner, regularly participates in Asia
In most corresponding, the first letter becomes central, being sincere The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Aug 2019
Characters are sent a deposit, perhaps
Showing conviction The Washington Post Sunday 23 Jun 2019
Heartfelt Universal 29 May 2019
Advance payment showing sincerity
Serious being in play by Wilde
Solemn The Telegraph Quick 17 Jan 2019
Heartfelt
Dedicated Newsday 29 Dec 2018
Every other runner in Asia perhaps is serious
Dedicated, least remote leader at the centre
Serious article penned by Shackleton, maybe The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Oct 2018
Quite sincere Universal 19 Aug 2018
Deeply sincere USA Today 27 Jul 2018
Serious The Telegraph Quick 13 Jul 2018
Sincere and very serious The Times Concise 04 May 2018
Intensely serious, boy penning note
''The Importance of Being ...'' (Oscar Wilde) Irish Times Simplex 13 Apr 2018
Not kidding The Washington Post Sunday 08 Apr 2018
Frank almost acquired street
Heartfelt New York Times 17 Mar 2018
Serious musical ability — something birds build up
Heart-to-heart The Washington Post 19 Feb 2018
Heart-to-heart LA Times Daily 19 Feb 2018
Sincere answer received by Hemingway? The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Jan 2018
Firm guarantee
Deeply sincere
Heartfelt
Heart-to-heart
Quite sincere
Serious load of fuzz in the lughole?
Determined The Sun Two Speed 29 Nov 2017
Sounds like man is sincere The Sun Two Speed 29 Nov 2017
Organ gang is burning The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Nov 2017
Serious student stripped on street
Sincere, as an apology USA Today 03 Sep 2017
Serious eastern winds
Serious attention needed by cosy home The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Aug 2017
Resent a drunk getting sober The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Aug 2017
Deeply serious Newsday 11 Aug 2017
Sincere or solemn Universal 11 Aug 2017
Like serious people, learn best when beginners are absent The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Jul 2017
Heartfelt, as a son's request to his father
Dedicated a Sterne novel The Telegraph Cryptic 15 May 2017
Serious type enters a building Irish Times Crosaire 06 May 2017
Sincere // Wilde stated the importance of being thus
Sincere The Guardian Speedy 08 Apr 2017
Heartfelt Thomas Joseph 25 Mar 2017
Serious fellow heard
Not kidding around USA Today 02 Jan 2017
Sincere or solemn
Not kidding around
Sincere, as an apology
Serious attention given to twitcher's target?
Resolute The Telegraph Quick 07 Nov 2016
Serious gain established
Dedicated trainees losing interest in work
Sincere LA Times Daily 02 Aug 2016
Sincere Newsday 31 Jul 2016
Determined, makes money long ago? The Telegraph Toughie 29 Jul 2016
Serious attention retreat needed
Wilde stressed on the importance of being thus
Take home earth and stone for grave The Telegraph Cryptic 17 May 2016
Serious attention given to home
Grave article hidden by Hemingway
Eastern riots becoming serious The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Mar 2016
Dedicated a Sterne novel
From the heart USA Today 13 Feb 2016
Eastern organisation is sincere The Sun Two Speed 12 Feb 2016
Sincere
From the heart
Serious New York Times 24 Dec 2015
Retreat after attention becomes intense
Such money shows one is serious, presumably The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Nov 2015
Over-serious The Telegraph Quick 07 Nov 2015
Retreat after attention becomes intense
Serious listener sent astray The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Oct 2015
Serious attention given to living space The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Sep 2015
Solemn; pledge The Telegraph Quick 29 Aug 2015
Listener heads home in determined mood
Important Wilde character goes round a grave The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Jun 2015
Serious; solemn The Telegraph Quick 04 May 2015
Fixed deposit The Telegraph Toughie 18 Mar 2015
Sincere
Serious
Art seen as fixed deposit
Electronic composer's way too serious
Serious attention given to home for brood
Resolute
Heartfelt
Like true believers
Sort of art seen as serious
Peculiar rat seen in grave
Sincere
Frank
Fervent
Heartfelt
Heartfelt
Heartfelt
Serious listener with cosy home
Sincerely zealous
Sincerely zealous
Wholehearted
Impassioned
Intent
Seriously sincere
Extremely sincere
Quite serious
Not kidding
Not kidding
Deeply felt
Sincere
Sincere
Wholehearted
Like true believers
From the heart
Purposeful
Determined
From the heart
Heartfelt
Heartfelt
Sincere
Heartfelt
Far from frivolous
Serious
___ money (contract confirmer)
Sincerely zealous
Purposeful
Purposeful
Quite serious
Intent
Intent
From the heart
It's Wilde-ly important to be this
Sincere
Purposeful
Well-meaning
Solemn
Wilde thought it important
Art making money, maybe, for Frank?
From the heart
"Serious" money
Resolute
Not kidding
Serious words are said in this
Sincere
Showing sincerity
Not playing around
Pledge money, at law
Grave
End of a Wilde title
Pledge
Sincerely zealous
Far from flippant
Dedicated and serious
Bound and determined
Not flippant
Showing sincerity.
"The Importance of Being ___."
Industrious
Serious
Retaining fee.
Zealous.
The Importance of Being ___.
A pledge.
Importunate.
Sincere.
Not jesting.
Word in Wilde title.
In a serious reality.
Life, to Longfellow.
Not playful.
Zealous and sincere.
Deeply convinced.
Not joking.
Money to bind a bargain.
Not trivial.
Sincerely zealous.
What life is, according to Longfellow.
"Life is real! Life is ___!"
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