Antonyms for grave
ˈgrɑ veɪgrave

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1. grave

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

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

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1. gravenoun

   death of a person

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

   Antonyms:
   noncrucial, frivolous, noncritical, unimportant

   Synonyms:
   grave accent, tomb

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"

   Antonyms:
   noncrucial, frivolous, noncritical, unimportant

   Synonyms:
   grave accent, tomb

3. grave accent, graveadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, noncritical, frivolous, noncrucial

   Synonyms:
   grave accent, tomb

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"

   Antonyms:
   noncrucial, noncritical, unimportant, frivolous

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

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"

   Antonyms:
   noncrucial, unimportant, frivolous, noncritical

   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

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"

   Antonyms:
   frivolous, noncritical, unimportant, noncrucial

   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

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"

   Antonyms:
   noncritical, frivolous, unimportant, noncrucial

   Synonyms:
   sculpt, scratch, sculpture, inscribe, engrave

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"

   Antonyms:
   noncrucial, unimportant, frivolous, noncritical

   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

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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

How to use grave in a sentence?

1. Douglas MacArthur:

   The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

2. Robert Burns:

   I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

3. Abdullah Kurdi:

   I just want to sit next to the grave of my children and my wife and rest, the things that happened to us here, in the country where we took refuge to escape war in our homeland, we want the whole world to see this.

4. Albert Einstein:

   There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.

5. Colette:

   Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?

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