ernst

Meaning

serious, severe, grave

Concepts

serious

earnest

grave

🪦

seriously

solemn

real

severe

significant

important

sober

considerable

solemnly

demure

austere

key

🔑

earnestly

stern

sternly

dignified

substantial

serious

genuine

sizable

weighty

reliable

appreciable

gravelly

soberly

staid

stately

strictly

typical

unsmiling

will not

must not

should not

major

alarming

austerely

authoritatively

awful

big deal

cannot

diligently

exceedingly

frequently

full-blown

full-grown

fundamental

gravely

Synonyms

wichtig

ernsthaft

bedeutend

bedeutsam

beträchtlich

erheblich

arg

👎

gesetzt

streng

feierlich

hart

seriös

schwerwiegend

🪦

schlimm

👎

aufrichtig

würdevoll

bedenklich

schwer

trocken

kritisch

‼️

nüchtern

festlich

verbissen

zeremoniös

bierernst

ernstlich

humorlos

vertrauenswürdig

groß

grimmig

ehrlich

todernst

schmucklos

gemessen

gemäßigt

schrecklich

gefährlich

ordentlich

scharf

zeremoniell

formal

finster

fest

Besorgnis erregend

außerordentlich

besorgniserregend

kalt

🥶

Ernst

herb

heftig

Translations

sérieux

serio

serio

ernstig

sério

serieus

grave

grave

erg

grave

🪦

voornaam

belangrijk

zwaar

zwaarwichtig

Dialects

Appenzell Innerrhoden

ernst

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

ernst

Basel-Landschaft

ernst

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛʁnst/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: ërnst

Cognate with English: earnest

In summary

From Middle High German ërnst, from Old High German ernust, from Proto-West Germanic *ernust, from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz, whence also English earnest.