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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Full of or marked by dignity and seriousness: earnest1, grave2, sedate, serious, solemn, somber, staid. See ATTITUDE, HEAVY. 2. Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are: down-to-earth, hard, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, objective, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, prosaic, realistic, tough-minded, unromantic. See EXCITE, REAL. 3. Exercising moderation and self-restraint in appetites and behavior: abstemious, continent, temperate. See RESTRAINT.
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