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grave

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of grave

1 having a matter of importance as its topic

  • leaving gossip and celebrities to other magazines, this journal focuses on the grave issues confronting the nation
Synonyms of grave

heavy, serious, weighty
Words Related to grave

big, consequential, eventful, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, portentous, significant, solid, substantial
Near Antonyms of grave

frivolous, insignificant, lite, little, Mickey Mouse, minor, silly, slight, small, trivial, unimportant
Antonyms of grave

light, unserious

2 involving potential loss or injury

  • going over Niagara Falls poses a grave danger
Synonyms of grave

dangerous, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, unhealthy, unsafe, venturesome
Words Related to grave

dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertain

ultrahazardous

chance, haphazard, random

distressing, sickening, unpleasant

ugly, wicked

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
Near Antonyms of grave

advantageous, beneficial, good

ultrasafe
Antonyms of grave

harmless, innocent, innocuous, nonhazardous, nonthreatening, safe, unthreatening

3 not joking or playful in mood or manner

  • when I asked him how his dog was doing, he looked grave and said, "Not good"
Synonyms of grave

earnest, humorless, no-nonsense, po-faced [British], sedate, serious, severe, sober, sobersided, solemn, staid, uncomic, unsmiling, weighty
Words Related to grave

harsh, stern, strict

businesslike, professional

dignified, distinguished, elevated, serious-minded

gloomy, grim
Near Antonyms of grave

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
Antonyms of grave

facetious, flip, flippant, humorous, jesting, jocular, joking, kittenish, ludic, playful

4 having a low musical pitch or range

  • a grave hexachord
Synonyms of grave

bass, deep, low, throaty
Words Related to grave

boomy, tubby

gruff, hoarse, husky, rough, smoky (also smokey)
Near Antonyms of grave

squeaking, squeaky, squealing, thin

earsplitting, penetrating, piercing, strident

peeping, tinny
Antonyms of grave

acute, high, high-pitched, piping, sharp, shrill, treble

Synonym Discussion of grave

serious, grave, solemn, sedate, staid, sober, earnest mean not light or frivolous. serious implies a concern for what really matters.
    • a serious play about social injustice
grave implies both seriousness and dignity in expression or attitude.
    • read the proclamation in a grave voice
solemn suggests an impressive gravity utterly free from levity.
    • a sad and solemn occasion
sedate implies a composed and decorous seriousness.
    • remained sedate amid the commotion
staid suggests a settled, accustomed sedateness and prim self-restraint.
    • a quiet and staid community
sober stresses seriousness of purpose and absence of levity or frivolity.
    • a sober look at the state of our schools
earnest suggests sincerity or often zealousness of purpose.
    • an earnest reformer

grave

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of grave

to cut (as letters or designs) on a hard surface

  • the doomed climber graved his initials into the rock face
Synonyms of grave

engrave, etch, incise, inscribe, insculp [archaic]
Words Related to grave

carve, chisel, sculpt, sculpture

chase, groove, indent, notch

score, trace

affix, impress

grave

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of grave

1 a final resting place for a dead person

  • the forlorn boy put flowers on his mother's grave
Synonyms of grave

burial, sepulchre (or sepulcher), sepulture, tomb
Words Related to grave

catacomb, charnel (also charnel house), columbarium, crypt, mausoleum, vault

cemetery, churchyard, graveyard, potter's field

barrow, mound, tumulus

2 the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities

  • a rock star who found his early grave in a plane crash
Synonyms of grave

curtains, death, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, great divide, passage, passing, quietus, sleep
Words Related to grave

casualty, fatality

martyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicide

annihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruin

assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter
Near Antonyms of grave

existence, life

creation, genesis, origination, rise
Antonyms of grave

birth, nativity

3 the state of being dead

  • a terrible fear of the grave
Synonyms of grave

dead, deadness, death, lifelessness, nothingness, sleep
Words Related to grave

mortality
Near Antonyms of grave

immortality

life span, lifetime
Antonyms of grave

existence, life

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