Grave

Adjective

 * 1)  Influential, important; authoritative.
 * 2) Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
 * 3) Low in pitch, tone etc.
 * 4) Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.

Noun

 * 1) A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
 * 2) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
 * 3) death, destruction.

Verb

 * 1)  To dig.
 * 2)  To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
 * 3)  To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
 * 4)  To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
 * 5)  To entomb; to bury.
 * 6)  To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
 * 7)  To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

Thesaurus
fateful, fell, file, fill out, final summons, finger of death, flagrant, footstone, formal, formidable, foul, found, frowning, full, fulsome, funebrial, funereal, furrow, gloomy, gnawing, going, going off, grand, gravestone, gray, great, grievous, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, griping, groove, gross, hammer, hand of death, hard, harrowing, harsh, hatch, headstone, heavy, heinous, hoarstone, hollow, horrible, house of death, hurtful, hurting, impanel, important, imposing, impress, imprint, incise, inculcate, index, infix, inscribe, inscription, insculpture, insert, inspiring, instill, intense, irresistible, jaws of death, jot down, killing, kingly, knell, last debt, last home, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaving life, line, list, lithograph, little, lofty, log, long home, long-faced, lordly, loss of life, low, low green tent, low house, low-down, low-pitched, lumpen, magisterial, main, majestic, major, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, make prints, making an end, mangy, mark, mark down, marker, mastaba, matriculate, mausoleum, mean, measly, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, mighty, minute, miserable, model, moderate, mold, monolith, monstrance, monstrous, monument, mound, moving, mummy chamber, murderous, narrow house, necrology, nefarious, nigrescent, no-nonsense, noble, note, note down, obelisk, obituary, obnoxious, odious, ossuarium, ossuary, painful, paltry, paroxysmal, parting, passage grave, passing, passing away, passing over, perilous, perishing, petty, piercing, pillar, pit, pivotal, place upon record, plaque, plenary, poignant, poky, poll, ponderous, poor, portentous, post, post up, pound, powerful, pressing, princely, print, prize, pungent, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, pyramid, queenly, quietus, racking, rank, record, reduce to writing, regal, register, release, reliquary, remembrance, reptilian, rest, resting place, reward, ribbon, rostral column, royal, sad, saturnine, scabby, score, scrape, scratch, scrubby, scruffy, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, scummy, scurvy, sedate, sentence of death, sepulcher, sepulchral, sepulture, serious, set down, severe, shabby, shades of death, shadow of death, shaft, shaft grave, sharp, shoddy, shooting, shrine, sleep, small, sober, sober-minded, sobersided, solder, solemn, somatic death, somber, sombrous, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, squalid, stabbing, staid, stamp, stately, statuesque, stela, stinging, stipple, stone, stone-faced, straight-faced, strong, stupa, sublime, summons of death, swart, swarthy, tablet, tabulate, take down, tape, tape-record, temperate, terrible, testimonial, thoughtful, tomb, tombstone, tool, tope, tormenting, torturous, total, tower of silence, triste, trophy, tumulus, ugly, unmentionable, unsmiling, urgent, vault, venerable, videotape, vile, vital, weariful, wearisome, weary, weighty, weld, worthy, wretched, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, abject, abominable, acute, afflictive, agonizing, annihilation, arch, aristocratic, arrant, assemble, atrocious, august, autolithograph, awe-inspiring, awful, bane, baritone, barrow, base, bass, be a printmaker, beehive tomb, beggarly, biological death, biting, black, blackish, bleak, bone house, book, boundary stone, box grave, brass, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, bust, cairn, calendar, carve, cast, catacomb, catacombs, catalog, cenotaph, cessation of life, chalk, chalk up, character, charnel house, chase, check in, cheesy, chisel, chronicle, cist, cist grave, clinical death, column, comprehensive, consequential, considerable, contemptible, contralto, courtly, cramping, crease, cribble, critical, cromlech, cross, crosshatch, crossing the bar, crucial, cruel, crummy, crypt, cup, curtains, cut, cyclolith, dangerous, dark, dark-colored, darkish, darksome, deadly, death, death knell, debased, debt of nature, decease, decorous, deep, deep six, deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, degraded, demise, demure, departure, depraved, despicable, destructive, dignified, dire, dirty, disgusting, dismal, dissolution, distressing, docket, dokhma, dolmen, doom, dour, dreadful, drear, drearisome, dreary, drive, dusk, dusky, dying, earnest, ebb of life, elevated, enchase, end, end of life, ending, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, etch, eternal rest, excruciating, execrable, exhaustive, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fatal,

Etymology 1
From grave:, from  gravis:.

Etymology 2
grafan: from, from. Cognate with Dutch graven:, German graben:, Swedish gräva:.

Etymology 3
græf:

Derived terms

 * begrave
 * dance on someone's grave
 * dig one's own grave
 * early grave
 * grave marker
 * grave robber
 * graverobbing
 * gravedigger
 * gravelike
 * graveside
 * gravesite
 * gravestone
 * graveward
 * mass grave
 * turn in one's grave
 * war grave
 * white man's grave

Adjective

 * Czech: vážný
 * Polish:


 * Spanish:, , , ;


 * Spanish:, ,


 * Czech: závažný
 * Polish:


 * Spanish: ,


 * : 物々しい (monomonoshi'i)
 * : 物々しい (monomonoshi'i)



Noun

 * Greek:


 * Spanish:

Verb

 * Spanish:


 * Spanish:, tallar


 * Spanish:

Noun

 * Afrikaans: graf
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: sepulcre
 * Czech:
 * Danish: (burial = )
 * Dutch: graf
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: мазар


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latvian: kaps
 * Manx:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: grav
 * Nynorsk: grav
 * Polish: grób, mogiła
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: uaigh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * West Frisian:

Etymology 1
From grave:, from  gravis:.

Adverb

 * 1)  grave low in pitch, tone etc.
 * 2) accent grave – accent grave, grave accent

Etymology 2
From grafa:.

Verb

 * 1) dig to move hard-packed earth out of the way

Derived terms

 * begrave
 * graver
 * gravning

Etymology 3
See grav:.

Anagrams

 * verga, vrage

Adverb

 * 1) seriously, gravely

Etymology
gravis:

Adjective

 * 1) serious
 * 2) solemn

Adverb

 * 1)  much; a lot

Related terms

 * gravement
 * gravissime
 * gravitation
 * gravité

Anagrams

 * gaver

Etymology
Latin gravis

Adjective

 * 1) grave, serious
 * 2) heavy
 * 3) solemn

Synonyms

 * importante
 * pesante
 * austero
 * serio

Antonyms

 * acuto

Related terms

 * gravemente
 * gravare
 * gravezza
 * gravità
 * gravoso

Anagrams

 * verga

Etymology
Latin gravis

Adjective

 * 1) serious, grave
 * 2) low (sound)
 * 3) solemn
 * 4)  stressed in the penultimate syllable: paroxytone

Related terms

 * gravedad
 * gravitar