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US
/ˈsɑɫəm/
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[ UK /sˈɒləm/ ]
[ UK /sˈɒləm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence
a grave God-fearing man
as sober as a judge
a solemn promise
a quiet sedate nature -
characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
a film with a solemn social message
an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant
both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate
How To Use solemn In A Sentence
- He was anointed with oil and the crown of France was solemnly lowered onto his head. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
- Aren't you a spoiled child, without the childness and the spoiling, to go and write in that plaintive, solemn way about 'help of some connexions of Jane's in Glasgow,' as if you were a desolate orphan Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
- The causes which make dolente a solemn word to the Italian ear, and dolent a queer word to the English ear, are causes which have been slowly operating ever since the Italian and the Teuton parted company on their way from The Unseen World and Other Essays
- As far as possible, the essential meaning or substance of each oath, and the formality and solemnity of the oaths, are retained.
- This fifteen metre, golden statue has sat here for 30 years and while its bulk is impressive, don't expect meditative solemnity; the forecourt is noisy with music, stalls and snack bars.
- The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
- a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness
- May I take this opportunity to wish all NLM readers a very happy and blessed Easter, in the words of the EF Martyrology: Hac die, quam fecit Dominus, Solemnitas solemnitatum, et Pascha nostrum: Resurrectio Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi secundum carnem. Papal Easter Day Mass and Urbi et Orbi Blessing
- But you make me laugh, puttin 'on airs an' pretendin 'to do it for spoort -- "Wimmen ha'n't got no sense o' spoort, "says you, all solemn as owls. Corporal Sam and Other Stories
- On the path a few solitary scraps of withered white and blue police tape were a solemn reminder of the crime scene.