Synonyms for grave
ˈgrɑ veɪgrave

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1. grave

   Synonyms:
   sad, serious, momentous, weighty, pressing, sedate, demure, thoughtful, sober, sombre, solemn, important, aggravated, heavy, cogent

   Antonyms:
   joyous, merry, facetious, unimportant, ridiculous, trivial, light, frivolous, futile

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1. gravenoun

   death of a person

   "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"

   Synonyms:
   grave accent, tomb

   Antonyms:
   noncrucial, frivolous, noncritical, unimportant

2. grave, tombnoun

   a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)

   "he put flowers on his mother's grave"

   Synonyms:
   grave accent, tomb

   Antonyms:
   noncrucial, frivolous, noncritical, unimportant

3. grave accent, graveadjective

   a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

   Synonyms:
   grave accent, tomb

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, noncritical, frivolous, noncrucial

4. grave, sedate, sober, solemnadjective

   dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

   "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"

   Synonyms:
   severe, sober, serious, somber, earnest, sincere, dangerous, staid, unplayful, weighty, grievous, drab, sedate, life-threatening, solemn, heavy, sombre

   Antonyms:
   noncrucial, noncritical, unimportant, frivolous

5. dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threateningadjective

   causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

   "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"

   Synonyms:
   severe, sober, serious, wicked, stark, unsafe, terrible, hard, spartan, stern, heavy, unplayful, weighty, monstrous, good, grievous, atrocious, sedate, flagitious, life-threatening, dangerous, knockout, austere, heartbreaking, heartrending, solemn

   Antonyms:
   noncrucial, unimportant, frivolous, noncritical

6. grave, grievous, heavy, weightyverb

   of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

   "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"

   Synonyms:
   heartrending, sullen, laborious, heavy, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, corpulent, sound, serious, gruelling, dense, grueling, wakeless, with child(p), threatening, solemn, profound, backbreaking, severe, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), great(p), clayey, enceinte, flagitious, grievous, monstrous, fleshy, atrocious, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, life-threatening, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, sedate, heartbreaking, sonorous, dangerous, arduous, operose, sober, rotund, heavy(p), big(a), labored, obese, laboured, punishing, cogent, telling, gravid, big(p), lowering, leaden

   Antonyms:
   frivolous, noncritical, unimportant, noncrucial

7. sculpt, sculpture, graveverb

   shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it

   "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"

   Synonyms:
   sculpt, scratch, sculpture, inscribe, engrave

   Antonyms:
   noncritical, frivolous, unimportant, noncrucial

8. scratch, engrave, grave, inscribeverb

   carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

   "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"

   Synonyms:
   itch, call off, scrape up, enrol, expunge, enter, fret, recruit, strike, etch, chafe, sculpture, code, cipher, cypher, come up, scratch, autograph, cancel, inscribe, write in code, encrypt, engrave, scrub, sculpt, scrape, fray, encipher, enroll, excise, scratch up, rub

   Antonyms:
   noncrucial, unimportant, frivolous, noncritical

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1. • Carve
   • Death
   • Topographic Point

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1. graveverb

   Synonyms:
   engrave, imprint, infix, impress deeply

2. graveverb

   Synonyms:
   carve, form by cutting

3. gravenoun

   Synonyms:
   pit (for a dead body), sepulchre, tomb, ossuary, charnel-house, narrow house, long home

4. graveadjective

   Synonyms:
   important, weighty, momentous, cogent, of great consequence

5. graveadjective

   Synonyms:
   sober, serious, sedate, thoughtful, demure, staid, solemn

6. graveadjective

   Synonyms:
   plain, not showy, not tawdry

7. graveadjective

   Synonyms:
   (Music.) deep, not acute, low in pitch

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1. graveadjective

   Synonyms:
   important, momentous, serious, sober, solemn, staid, demure, sedate, quiet, thoughtful, subdued, sepulchral

2. gravenoun

   Synonyms:
   tomb, sepulcher, charnel-house, ossuary, sepulture, tumulus, barrow

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1. List of paraphrases for "grave":

   serious, severe, tomb, deep, gross, profound, acute, graves, seriously, cemetery, dangerous, falls, major, burial, great, severely, heavy, dire, grievous, gravesite, gravely, graveyard

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1. Geoffrey Berman:

   Unlawful disclosure of classified intelligence can pose a grave threat to our national security, potentially endangering the safety of Americans.

2. Zijada Hajdarevic:

   We knew he was gone, but it will be easier now we know where we can visit his grave.

3. Marise Payne:

   The cable is so practical, so important and so emblematic of the relationship between Australia and our key partners in the Pacific, the Coral Sea Cable will deliver for Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands a connected future, Payne said, adding that the aim was for the cable to be operational by December. China denies using economic aid as political leverage, insisting it considers the ability of a country to repay loans when offering finance. In a bid to counter China, Australia has offered A$ 3 billion( $ 2.03 billion) in cheap loans and grants to the Pacific. The competition for influence in the Pacific has soured bilateral relations between Australia and China. The relationship came under further strain on Tuesday when China confirmed it has formally arrested a Chinese-born Australian writer on suspicion of espionage. Yang Hengjun, a former Chinese diplomat turned online journalist and blogger, was detained in January. Payne on Tuesday said Australia held grave concerns about Yang Hengjun and the.

4. Greg Abbott:

   This tragic loss is a grave reminder of the risks that our law enforcement officers face every single day, i thank the officers who bravely responded to apprehend the suspect, and I assure you that the state of Texas is committed to bringing this killer to justice.

5. David Gallo:

   Ive been called a greedy treasure hunter, a grave robber, i find these charges to be personally insulting.