Thesaurus
grave
Synonyms and Antonyms of grave
- leaving gossip and celebrities to other magazines, this journal focuses on the grave issues confronting the nation
- going over Niagara Falls poses a grave danger
dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertain
distressing, sickening, unpleasant
adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilent
deadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous
- when I asked him how his dog was doing, he looked grave and said, "Not good"
antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, hysterical (also hysteric), laughable, light, light-headed, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, uproarious
featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, lighthearted, puerile, scatterbrained
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, fatuous, foolish, half-witted, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany
- a grave hexachord
Synonym Discussion of grave
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- a serious play about social injustice
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- read the proclamation in a grave voice
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- a sad and solemn occasion
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- remained sedate amid the commotion
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- a quiet and staid community
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- a sober look at the state of our schools
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- an earnest reformer
grave
Synonyms and Antonyms of grave
grave
Synonyms and Antonyms of grave
- the forlorn boy put flowers on his mother's grave
catacomb, charnel (also charnel house), columbarium, crypt, mausoleum, vault
- a rock star who found his early grave in a plane crash
- a terrible fear of the grave
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