Usually means: Characterized by deep sincerity, gravity.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. solemn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. solemn: Merriam-Webster
  3. solemn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. solemn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. solemn: Collins English Dictionary
  6. solemn: Vocabulary.com
  7. Solemn, solemn: Wordnik
  8. solemn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. solemn: Wiktionary
  10. solemn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. solemn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. solemn: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Solemn, solemn: Dictionary.com
  14. solemn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. solemn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Solemn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Solemn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. solemn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. solemn: Rhymezone
  20. solemn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. solemn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. solemn: FreeDictionary.org
  23. solemn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. solemn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. solemn: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Solemn: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solemn: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solemn: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Solemn: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (religion, specifically Christianity) Of or pertaining to religious ceremonies and rites; (generally) religious in nature; sacred.
▸ adjective:  (by extension)
▸ adjective:  Characterized by or performed with appropriate or great ceremony or formality.
▸ adjective:  Deeply serious and sombre; grave.
▸ adjective:  Inspiring serious feelings or thoughts; sombrely impressive.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Cheerless, gloomy, sombre.

Similar:
ceremonial, formal, grave, sincere, in earnest, earnest, sobersided, serious, sedate, humorless, more...

Opposite:
cheerful, jovial, lighthearted, playful, merry

Types:
serious, dignified, solemnity, solemnize, solemnisation, solemnization, more...

Phrases:
solemn promise, solemn vow, solemn vows, solemn mass, solemn meeting, more...

Adjectives:
non, long, other, such, more, silent, how

Colors:
    charcoal,     maroon,     burgundy,     deep purple,     forest green, more...


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Similar:
ceremonial, formal, grave, sincere, in earnest, earnest, sobersided, serious, sedate, humorless, more...

Opposite:
cheerful, jovial, lighthearted, playful, merry

Types:
serious, dignified, solemnity, solemnize, solemnisation, solemnization, more...

Phrases:
solemn promise, solemn vow, solemn vows, solemn mass, solemn meeting, solemn masses, Solemn League and Covenant, solemn high mass, solemn stretch of time, solemn ceremony, solemn observance, more...

Adjectives:
non, long, other, such, more, silent, how

Colors:
    charcoal,     maroon,     burgundy,     deep purple,     forest green, more...



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