earnestly

Adverb

Meaning

In an earnest manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

seriously in earnest fain hard really truly actively firmly intensely dynamically honestly eagerly passionately hotly urgently
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Antonyms

safely informally reluctantly humorously cowardly calmly
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Phrases with the word

to look earnestly endeavor earnestly on earnestly coveted earnestly asked for

Anagrams

easternly

Examples

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. Martin Luther

Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it - the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements. Theodore Roosevelt

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself. Anna Brownell Jameson

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. Charles Cooley

Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth. A. A. Milne

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment. Madeline Kahn

Close letter words and terms

earnest pleasure earnest words earnestful earnestly asked for earnestly coveted earnestness