Earnest

Definition

earnest 1 /'ɜ:nÇst/ adj အလြန္ အေလးအနက္ထားေသာ။ အလြန္စိတ္ ထက္သန္ေသာ။ a terribly earnest young woman ❍ an earnest conversation/expression. ❏ in (deadly) earnest [ IDM ] ၁။ အျပင္းအထန္ အသည္း အသန္။ သဲႀကီးမဲႀကီး။ The publicity campaign will begin in earnest next month. ❍ It's beginning to snow in earnest (ie heavily). ၂။ ေလးေလးနက္နက္။ အတည္။ You may laugh, but I'm in deadly earnest. earnestly adv : He spoke very earnestly. ❍ I earnestly beg you to reconsider your decision. earnestness n [U] earnest 2 /'ɜ:nÇst/ n [sing] ( fml ) ေရွ႕ေျပးနိမိတ္။ The weapons were ceremoniously destroyed as an earnest of their avowed intention.

Examples

1. An earnest young man
2. Earnest discussions