しんめんもく【真面目】
- 真面目を発揮する
- 〔能力を〕give full play to one's abilities/〔真価を〕prove one's real worth
まじめ【真▲面目】
- 1〔本気〕まじめな 〔真摯な〕serious;〔熱心な〕earnest
- まじめな顔で
- with 「a serious [an earnest] look
- まじめな話だ
- I mean business./I mean it.
- そんなにまじめに考えないでくれ
- Don't take it so seriously.
- 彼はまじめそのものだ
- He is sobriety itself.
- 2〔誠実〕
- まじめな人
- 「an honest [a reliable] person
- これからまじめになります
- I will 「live an honest life [go straight] after this.
- まじめ人間a reliable person;《口》 a straight arrow