'Solemn' definitions:
Definition of 'solemn'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Solemn'
From: GCIDE
- Solemn \Sol"emn\, a. [OE. solempne, OF. solempne, L. solemnis, solennis, sollemnis, sollennis; sollus all, entire + annus a year; properly, that takes place every year; -- used especially of religious solemnities. Cf. Silly, Annual.]
- 1. Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred. [1913 Webster]
- His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The worship of this image was advanced, and a solemn supplication observed everry year. --Bp. Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal. [Obs.] "On this solemn day." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Stately; ceremonious; grand. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- His feast so solemn and so rich. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- To-night we hold a splemn supper. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness. [1913 Webster]
- Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn touches troubled thoughts. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- There reigned a solemn silence over all. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Real; earnest; downright. [Obs. & R.] [1913 Webster]
- Frederick, the emperor, . . . has spared no expense in strengthening this city; since which time we find no solemn taking it by the Turks. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face. "A solemn coxcomb." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Law) Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. --Burrill. --Jarman. --Greenleaf. [1913 Webster]
- Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious; reverential; devotional; devout. See Grave. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'solemn'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- admiring,
- adorant,
- adoring,
- apotheosizing,
- arid,
- aristocratic,
- august,
- awe-inspiring,
- awed,
- awesome,
- awestricken,
- awestruck,
- barren,
- believing,
- black,
- blah,
- blank,
- bleak,
- bloated,
- bloodless,
- bombastic,
- celebrating,
- celebrative,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- characterless,
- Christian,
- Christianlike,
- Christianly,
- cold,
- colorless,
- commemorating,
- commemorative,
- conventional,
- courtly,
- cultish,
- cultist,
- cultistic,
- dark,
- dead,
- decorous,
- deifying,
- demure,
- devoted,
- devotional,
- devout,
- dignified,
- dismal,
- divine,
- draggy,
- drear,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- ecclesiastical,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- elevated,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- faithful,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- flat,
- flatulent,
- formal,
- formidable,
- frowning,
- full,
- funebrial,
- funereal,
- gassy,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- grave,
- gray,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- hallowed,
- heavy,
- hero-worshiping,
- hieratic,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- holy,
- idolatrous,
- idolizing,
- imploring,
- important,
- imposing,
- impressive,
- in awe,
- in the dust,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- inflated,
- insipid,
- inspiring,
- jejune,
- kingly,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- liturgic,
- liturgical,
- lofty,
- long-faced,
- lordly,
- low-spirited,
- magisterial,
- magnificent,
- majestic,
- memorial,
- mirthless,
- moderate,
- momentous,
- morbid,
- morose,
- moving,
- no-nonsense,
- noble,
- on bended knee,
- ostentatious,
- overwhelming,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedestrian,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- plenary,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- pontifical,
- portentous,
- prayerful,
- precative,
- precatory,
- princely,
- prostrate before,
- queenly,
- regal,
- religious,
- reserved,
- reverent,
- reverential,
- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- royal,
- sacerdotal,
- sacramental,
- sacred,
- saturnine,
- sedate,
- self-important,
- serious,
- slow,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- somber,
- sombrous,
- spiritless,
- staid,
- stately,
- statuesque,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stodgy,
- stone-faced,
- straight-faced,
- stuffy,
- sublime,
- superficial,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- supplicatory,
- swollen,
- taciturn,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- temperate,
- theistic,
- thoughtful,
- triste,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unlively,
- unsmiling,
- vapid,
- venerable,
- venerational,
- venerative,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- weary,
- weighty,
- well-mannered,
- wooden,
- worshipful,
- worshiping,
- worthy