All 9 Uses
solemn
in
The Great Gatsby
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- I was rather literary in college — one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the "Yale News."
p. 4.7 *solemn = serious (earnest in manner)
- But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.†
p. 24.2solemn = very serious--possibly dignified
- Up-stairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxicabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with gray upholstery, and in this we slid out from the mass of the station into the glowing sunshine.†
p. 27.2
- His voice was solemn, as if the memory of that sudden extinction of a clan still haunted him.†
p. 65.8
- "You're very polite, but I belong to another generation," he announced solemnly.
p. 72.8solemnly = with seriousness and dignity
- It was Gatsby's father, a solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day.†
p. 167.2solemn = very serious--possibly dignified
- In a moment Meyer Wolfshiem stood solemnly in the doorway, holding out both hands.†
p. 170.8solemnly = with seriousness and dignity
- I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name.†
p. 176.2solemn = very serious--possibly dignified
- In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress.†
p. 176.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(solemn) in a very serious (and often dignified) manner
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, solemn can mean that something was done with great or appropriate ceremony. It can also be used to describe something as dark or undecorated.