meaning of solemn
1. Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.
2. Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.
3. Stately; ceremonious; grand.
4. Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.
5. Real; earnest; downright.
6. Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.
7. Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.
8. characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; "both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate"; "an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant"; "a film with a solemn social
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