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What is the adjective for earnested?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb earnest which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

earnest
  1. Serious in speech or action; eager; urgent; importunate; pressing; instant.
  2. (with a positive sense) Focused in the pursuit of an objective; eager to obtain or do.
  3. Intent; fixed closely.
  4. Possessing or characterised by seriousness; strongly bent; intent.
  5. Strenuous; diligent.
  6. Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; not trifling or feigned; important.
  7. Synonyms:
      8. serious, solemn, grave, sedate, staid, humorless, humourless, severe, sober, somber, sombre, uncomic, unsmiling, sobersided, weighty, po-faced, no-nonsense, grim, stern, dour, sad, gloomy, glum, stony-faced, forbidding, morose, dismal, austere, sullen, saturnine, doleful, joyless, cheerless, depressed, melancholy, dreary, lugubrious, serious-minded, desolate, depressing, disapproving, deadpan, subdued, hard, mournful, dire, muted, funereal, poker-faced, bleak … more
  8. Examples:
      9. “Although there was no smile upon his calm earnest countenance, there was a spirit of gladness in his heart.”
      “We contend not about words and trifles, but of high and earnest matters.”
      “He was overwhelmed upon hearing her earnest prayers for him and the nation.”
earnester
  1. comparative form of earnest: more earnest
  2. Synonyms:
      3. seriouser, graver, staider, severer, soberer, somberer, sombrer, weightier, more solemn, more sedate, more humorless, more humourless, more uncomic, more sobersided, more po-faced, more no-nonsense, acuter, more significant, more important, more consequential, more critical, more crucial, more momentous, more exigent, more major, more profound, more urgent, more considerable, more key, more pivotal, more portentous, more substantial, more vital, more decisive, more far-reaching, devouter … more
earnestest
  1. (now rare) superlative form of earnest: most earnest
  2. Synonyms:
      3. seriousest, gravest, staidest, severest, soberest, somberest, sombrest, weightiest, most solemn, most sedate, most humorless, most humourless, most uncomic, most sobersided, most po-faced, most no-nonsense, acutest, most significant, most important, most consequential, most critical, most crucial, most momentous, most exigent, most major, most profound, most urgent, most considerable, most key, most pivotal, most portentous, most substantial, most vital, most decisive, most far-reaching, devoutest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “When I chance to be angry, it is in the earnestest manner that may be, but yet as briefly and as secretly, as is possible.”
earnested
  1. simple past tense and past participle of earnest
earnesting
  1. present participle of earnest
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