Earnest is valid Scrabble Word

Is earnest a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is earnest valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for EARNEST in dictionary:

VERB:

To use in earnest.

NOUN:

a pledge of good intent
a thing intended or regarded as a sign or promise of what is to come
Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness.
Something given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge; pledge; handsel; a token of what is to come.
Something of value given by the buyer to the seller, by way of token or pledge, to bind the bargain and prove the sale.
something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract
part payment given in advance

ADJECTIVE:

serious
resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction

serious and sincere
Ardent in the pursuit of an object; eager to obtain or do; zealous with sincerity; with hearty endeavor; heartfelt; fervent; hearty; -- used in a good sense; as, earnest prayers.
Intent; fixed closely; as, earnest attention.
Serious; important.
characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a down payment

Words related to EARNEST

earnestly12 earnestness11 earnestnesses13 earnests8

Words that contain EARNEST

earnests8 earnestly12 earnestness11 overearnest14 earnestnesses13 overearnestly19 overearnestness18

How to use EARNEST in a sentence

Let these services be more lively, more earnest, more useful to us all than they have been, by making them more a worship of the whole congregation, and not of the minister alone.
His person was not commanding, but intelligence radiated from his features, and his earnest nature commanded respect.
Brother Haagenson is a man of deep piety and earnest purpose.
He could speak in deadly earnest of that sixteenth goat.
It is my earnest desire, however, that it may not be found necessary to resort to this last alternative.
His own faith has been earnest and strong in the reality of the spiritual.
This is permitted for the trial of my faith and patience, and my earnest prayer is, that I may secure the good intended.
Gates had already sent William Campbell an earnest request to march down with his troops and join the main army.
I merely wanted to be sure that you are in earnest.
But there was an unmistakable hint that they were in earnest.

Then, as was natural, what was at first a kind of play, became before long a serious and earnest confidence on the one side, and a hesitating reception on the other.
I liked the man from the first, for he seemed direct and earnest.
But the girl who is in earnest can refuse to gossip and learn to talk and think about the great needs and problems of our day.
He was full of an earnest desire to do good, as he defined doing good.
Winter had set in in earnest, and the cold became so severe as we ascended, that the deck was abandoned, and the nearest seat to the stove was considered the best.
One of their own number, a tall, dark young man, was standing before them and was pleading with them in low, earnest tones.
From the religious point of view, this is a matter which should engage the earnest attention of the great missionary societies of this country.
By noon of the next day they reached the point at which Billy Brackett had last seen the raft, and they knew that here their search for it must begin in earnest.
He is, in the best sense of the word, a philosopher, an earnest and humble lover of wisdom.
He, within very few years thereafter, was effectually and in good earnest created and installed Roman emperor.
The face recalled the earnest words that he had spoken, and the tone of restful satisfaction in which they were spoken.
Beneath a carefully-constructed, and perhaps slightly artificially maintained, frivolity of tone, the book is written in deadly earnest.
Some good, earnest people have been thinking that the whole race except a small minority were given over to eternal misery.
The woman who loved him and who expected to be his wife, and still had faith in him, was at his side, with her sister, conversing with him between her sobs, in a low earnest tone.
From the Escurial itself came letters expressing an earnest hope that the new King of England would be on good terms with his Parliament and his people.
He was not sure from moment to moment whether or not she was in earnest.
Yet somehow, sitting there in the friendly shadows, with the firelight shining on the earnest manly face opposite, she did not care so much about a Joan of Arc career as she had.

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