How to pronounce“earnest”in English
But he's-- the reason why I wanted to do this book with him-- and we'd written one book together before-- was because he has this very earnest love and very
earnest curiosity about Japanese food and Japanese culture and has studied it rigorously, and has like an approach, I think, that a lot of people could learn from.
You know, he isn't just sort of, like, flying to Tokyo and then coming back and being like, I've heard these isakaya things and I'm
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Definitions of “earnest”
Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.
“Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest.”
Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence)
To be serious with; use in earnest.
“Let's prove among ourselves our armes in jest, That when we come to earnest them with men, We may them better use.”
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