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

Matched Categories

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. Robert Kelly:

   Words cannot express how happy I am, i feel like I am meeting people who came back from the grave.

2. Dame Rebecca West:

   If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time."

3. Larry Krasner:

   Sean Toomey was a child full of promise and hope, like all children, the great potential he held was extinguished in a snap by strangers withfirearms. Sean Toomey should be alive today and looking forward to the rest of his life. To those who knew and loved him: The loss of Sean’slife is a grave injustice, and we are heartbroken and outraged by his death.

4. Zhang Dejiang:

   In the face of a grave and complex situation in the fight against terrorism both at home and abroad, it is of crucial importance that China intensifies its anti-terrorism activities, the improvements to our counterterrorism laws will be of great importance for preventing and punishing terrorist activities according to law, for safeguarding national and public security and for protecting lives and property.

5. Václav Havel:

   True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?