solemn
Adjective Satellite
- dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- "a solemn promise"
- "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
- characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
- "a film with a solemn social message"
Adj
- Of or pertaining to religious ceremonies and rites; (generally) religious in nature; sacred.
- Characterized by or performed with appropriate or great ceremony or formality.
- Deeply serious and sombre; grave.
- Inspiring serious feelings or thoughts; sombrely impressive.
- Cheerless, gloomy, sombre.
Adjective
- Serious, formal, and dignified in manner or occasion.
Examples
- A solemn hush fell over the Scrabble tournament as the final tiles were drawn.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English solempne, solemne (“performed with religious ceremony or reverence; devoted to religious observances, sacred; ceremonious, formal; of a vow: made under a religious sanction, binding; religious celebration, celebration of a feast day; famous, well-known; important; grand, imposing; awe-inspiring, impressive; grave, serious; dignified; enunciated or held formally”) [and other forms], from Old French solempne, solemne (“serious, solemn”) [and other forms], or from its etymon Late Latin sōlempnis, sōlennis, from Latin sōlemnis, from sollemnis (“appointed, established, fixed; common, customary, ordinary, ritual, traditional, usual; ceremonial, religious, solemn; festive; annual, yearly”) [and other forms]. The further etymology is uncertain; sollus (“entire, whole”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”)) + epulum (“banquet, feast”) (in the sense of a ritual; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”)) has been suggested.
Synonyms
earnest, grave, sedate, sincere, sober, austere, awe-inspiring, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, demure, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, grievous, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, sad, sage, saturnine, serious, solemn, solemncholy, somber, sombre, spiritless, staid, stern, sullen, sunless, sweer, thoughtful, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, weightsome, weighty, wintry, woeful
Antonyms
blue, bummed out, cheerful, depressed, discontented, down, grieving, lighthearted, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, unserious
Scrabble Score: 8
solemn: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsolemn: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
solemn: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary