solemn

Speech parts

1. solemn - Adjective

2. solemn - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.

Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.

Stately; ceremonious; grand.

Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.

Real; earnest; downright.

Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.

Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

grave sober serious formal earnest holy lenten august largo constitutive majestic regal ritual sacred profound
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Antonyms

merry jolly light sportive elvish newsy
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Related terms

solemnity solemnize solemnization solemnise solemnisation solemnizer

Phrases with the word

solemn service solemn words solemn declaration solemn word

Anagrams

Lemnos losmen melons Melson Selmon Smolen lemons

Examples

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. Charles Baudelaire

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough. V. S. Pritchett

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. John Ruskin

How he lies in his rights of a man Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. Robert Browning

Joseph Alleine, The Solemn Warnings of the Dead: or, An Admonition to Unconverted Sinners (1804), Chapter 3. Chinese Proverb

As long as I am rich reputed, with solemn voice I am saluted. Romanian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

solely solely in one language Solem solemn declaration solemn mass solemn service