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词汇 overearnest
释义 overearnest
adjective
(alsoover-earnest)uk /ˌəʊ.vərˈɜː.nɪst/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈɝː.nɪst/
too serious and determined, especially so serious that you are unable to find your own actions funny: 过分认真;过分严肃
She's an over-earnest director who's made a handful of second-rate films.
His novels could sometimes be over-earnest.他的小说有时可能过于严肃。
An over-earnest presenter was asking her increasingly dull questions.
I got stuck talking to an overearnest academic.
She plays the over-earnest daughter of a British family visiting the Dordogne.
Critics describe his plays as over-earnest.
The overearnest dancer droned on about her partner for so long that I wanted to fall asleep.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Lacking humour
a laugh a minuteidiom
be no laughing matteridiom
beyond
beyond a jokeidiom
earnestly
earnestness
humourlessly
intense
lightly
saturnine
sober
soberly
solemnity
sombreness
starchy
straight-facedly
turgid
turgidity
turgidly
ultra-serious
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