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— English words —

• earnest n. Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.
• earnest n. Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence).
• earnest v. (Transitive) To be serious with; use in earnest.
• earnest adj. (Said of an action or an utterance) Serious or honest.
• earnest adj. (With a positive sense) Focused in the pursuit of an objective; eager to obtain or do.
• earnest adj. Intent; focused; showing a lot of concentration.
• earnest adj. (Said of a person or a person’s character) Possessing or characterised by seriousness.
• earnest adj. Strenuous; diligent.
• earnest adj. Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important.
• earnest n. A sum of money paid in advance as a deposit; hence, a pledge, a guarantee, an indication of something to come.
• earnest v. (Archaic) second-person singular simple present form of earn.
• Earnest prop.n. A male given name from the Germanic languages, of occasional usage, variant of Ernest.

— English words, defined in French —

• earnest adj. Sérieux.
• earnest adj. Sincère.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• earnest adj. Serio.
• earnest adj. Profundo, sincero.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• earnest adj. Encarecido, insistente.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• earnest agg. Serio, coscienzioso, scrupoloso.
• earnest agg. Zelante.
• earnest agg. Sincero.
• earnest agg. Giudizioso.
• earnest agg. Onesto.
• earnest agg. Importante, grave, ardente.
• earnest agg. Urgente, incalzante, pressante.
• earnest s. Pegno, garanzia.
• earnest s. Caparra.
• earnest s. (Senso figurato) prova, segno.
• earnest s. (Massima) serietà.

— In Dutch —

• Earnest eig. (Mannelijke naam) jongensnaam.

80 English words from 12 English definitions

action actuality advance a␣lot Archaic as␣opposed␣to character characterised come concentration deposit diligent eager earn earnest earnestness Ernest focused form from Germanic given given␣name Gravity guarantee hence honest important in␣advance indication in␣earnest Intent joking languages lot male money name nature objective obtain occasional of␣a of␣an opposed paid person pledge positive positive␣sense Possessing present pretence purpose pursuit reality Said second second␣person second-person␣singular sense serious seriousness showing simple simple␣present singular something something␣to Strenuous sum the to␣come Transitive usage use utterance variant weighty with

3 English words from 17 foreign definitions

grave naam segno

27 foreign words from 17 foreign definitions

ardente Caparra coscienzioso Encarecido figurato garanzia Giudizioso Importante incalzante insistente jongensnaam Massima Onesto Pegno pressante Profundo prova scrupoloso Senso Senso␣figurato serietà Sérieux Serio Sincère sincero Urgente Zelante

14 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

earnests earnesty earnested earnester earnestly earnestest earnestful earnesting earnestness earnest-money earnest␣money earnest-moneys earnest␣moneys earnestnesses

2 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

overearnestly overearnestness

5 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

learnest yearnest in␣earnest unearnest overearnest

21 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Arn Arne Arnes arnest ear EAR 'ear earn Earn EARN est Est EST -est est. Est. NES nest Nest NEST RNE

10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ENR NRA Rae sen Sen SEN Sen. tse Tse TSE

8 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

eastern Eastern estrane nearest renates Saetern sterane Tareens

97 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

absenter angerest ant␣trees arenites Arentzes Arnettes arsenate arsenite arsetane assenter asterane aventres base␣rent centares crenates earnests earnesty earstone earthens enacters enragest entreats entrepas Enyearts estranes estrange eternals fastener Feenstra fenestra grantees greatens hastener heartens Kaestner learnest Marentes Near␣East negaters onerates Parentes præsent prenates ratteens ravenest reabsent reagents reägents reascent reenacts re-enacts +46 words

76 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

ætern antres arenes arents Arents aretes arêtes arnest arsete asteer astern atenes atrens earset easter Easter Eastre eaters enates ensate ensear entera enters Enters entres ernest Ernest naters neater nester ranees ratees renate renest Rentas rentes reseat resent retans saeter sæter Santee santer sarten sateen seater Seater senate Senate Senter serena Serena Snater staree Stearn sterna sterne Sterne Strean strene Tareen Taseer teares Teares teaser tenase Teners tenser Terans teresa Teresa ternes transe Trease treens Treens

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

warnest

3 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

arnest ernest Ernest

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