Polish English Dictionary

język polski - English

powaga in English:

1. solemnity solemnity


The commentator spoke with reverence and solemnity (The Redbreast)
His voice has the clearness of youth, with cheerfulness beneath the solemnity.

English word "powaga"(solemnity) occurs in sets:

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2. seriousness


I realize the seriousness of this moment.
Despite the seriousness of his illness, Mr Robinson is in good spirits.
Bob Johnson tried to make people realize the seriousness of the situation in Africa.

English word "powaga"(seriousness) occurs in sets:

słownictwo speak up 7 - 35/4
Longman repetytorium maturalne słowotwórstwo
u6 rzeczowniki przymiotniki
EN slowka z ksiazki 4
eating disorders, white lies

3. gravity


Gravity brings everything down to Earth.
Newton established the law of gravity.
Without gravity we would be hurled off into space.
They conducted a series of experiments under zero gravity.
Gravity is the natural force by which objects are attracted to each other.
the force of gravity
Gravity stresses the human body.
This is a matter of the utmost gravity.
The gravity of the moon is one-sixth of that of the earth.
she realized the gravity of the situation
I want to play a game where a noble female knight with the nickname "Light-Speed" freely manipulates gravity.
If you can use gravity to your advantage, do so.
The water flows from the tank by gravity to the houses below.
Is the moon's gravity stronger or weaker than the Earth's gravity?
Let us consider the gravity of this day, for today inside the hospitable walls of Boulogne-sur-Mer, the French are not meeting the English, nor are Russians meeting Poles, but people are meeting people.

English word "powaga"(gravity) occurs in sets:

Millenium 3, rozdział 15
System polityczny USA – zaawansowane słownictwo z ...
Chris vocabulary B2.2-2
Words Extra 1
Words Extra 3

4. earnest


It began raining in earnest.
An earnest young man. powazny mlody czlowiek. An earnest student- sumienny studen, traktujacy swoje obowiazki z powaga
They offer an earnest prayer on the evening of December 24.
The superpowers negotiated in earnest for the settlement of the intense conflict.
Mingle your joys sometimes with your earnest occupation.
During his seven years in Japan, he studied Japanese in earnest.
He firmly refused the Premier's earnest request.
Our success, after all, is due to his earnest efforts.
I kept thinking of a moment, which I hadn’t written about, where Dykstra, upon learning that I was sick and in a foreign country, immediately shed the dude-bro tone and asked in earnest if I had access to adequate doctors.
After many years of being sarcastic he spoke up seriously and everybody noticed his earnest tone.
Despite her earnest efforts, she could not find a job.
In order to participate you need to pay an earnest. Well, if you're being earnest, then that's mean.
Call him man in his ideal, how earnest is he!
He began courting her in earnest when he found out that she had another suitor.
Oh my. However much it's just a P.E. class; if you don't face it in real earnest, then when it comes to a real fight it won't do you any good.

English word "powaga"(earnest) occurs in sets:

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Moje słówka angielskie (31)

5. severity


His running away from home is due to his father's severity.
The severity of the heart attack depends on the size of the area of heart muscle affected.
The severity of the sentence surprised everyone.
People are not aware of the severity of the problem.
The severity of such marks can reveal whether or not any of these people were habitually engaged in hard labor.
He erred on the side of severity.

English word "powaga"(severity) occurs in sets:

Dodatkowy maturalna
heart attack

6. gravitas


He's an effective enough politician but somehow he lacks the statesmanlike gravitas of a world leader.