GRAVE

Meaning of GRAVE in English

Function: adjective

Synonyms: SERIOUS 2, heavy, severe, weighty

Synonyms: SERIOUS 1, earnest, no-nonsense, sedate, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber, staid, weighty

Related Words: heavy, ponderous; grim, sad, saturnine; awful, dreadful, horrible, terrible

Contrasted Words: flippant, light, light-minded

Antonyms: gay

3 involving marked risk of impairment or destruction FF1C; a grave illness FF1E;

Synonyms: dangerous, fell, grievous, major, serious, ugly; compare DANGEROUS 1

Related Words: deadly, destructive, dire, fatal, killing, murderous; frightening, ghastly, terrible; afflictive, severe

Contrasted Words: paltry, petty, trivial; harmless, innocuous; temporary, transitory

Merriam Webster. Collegiate thesaurus English dictionary. Английский энциклопедический толковый словарь тезауруса. 2012

GRAVE — adj I. heavy; II. grave (1. solemn, important; 2. low-pitched, deep); accento grave [Gram.] grave accent
Interlingua English vocab
GRAVE — I. grave ˈgrāv verb ( graved -vd ; grav·en -vən ; or graved ; graving ; graves ) Etymology: Middle …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GRAVE — (superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
Английский словарь Webster
GRAVE — ( superl. ) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — grave 1 — graveless , adj. — gravelike , adj. — graveward, gravewards , adv. , adj. /grayv/ , n. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — I. grave ˈgrāv transitive verb ( graved ; grav·en ˈgrā-vən ; or graved ; grav·ing ) Etymology: Middle English, from …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GRAVE — noun to dig. chaucer. 2. grave ·superl slow and solemn in movement. 3. grave ·superl of great weight; heavy; ponderous. …
Webster English vocab
GRAVE — [grave] vt graved ; grav.en or graved ; grav.ing [ME, fr. OE grafan; akin to OHG graban to dig, OCS …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GRAVE — I grave noun 'burial place'; adjective 'serious'; verb BrE AmE ɡreɪv ▷ graved ɡreɪvd ▷ graver ˈɡreɪv ə AmE - …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
GRAVE — I . *grave / greɪv; NAmE / noun , adjective —see also grave (II) ■ noun 1. a place in …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GRAVE — I. grave 1 /ɡreɪv/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: græf ] 1 . the place …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GRAVE — adj. & n. --adj. 1 a serious, weighty, important (a grave matter). b dignified, solemn, sombre (a grave look). 2 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GRAVE — n. 1 a a trench dug in the ground to receive a coffin on burial. b a mound or memorial …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GRAVE — adj. & n. adj. 1 a serious, weighty, important (a grave matter). b dignified, solemn, sombre (a grave look). 2 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GRAVE — n. 1 a a trench dug in the ground to receive a coffin on burial. b a mound or memorial …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GRAVE — 1. n.1 a a trench dug in the ground to receive a coffin on burial. b a mound or memorial …
Oxford English vocab
GRAVE — Pronounced /greɪv/ except for meaning 5, when it is pronounced /grɑ:v/. ( graver, gravest) Frequency: The word is one of …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GRAVE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a grave error (= extremely serious, with serious results ) ▪ He has committed …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GRAVE — Synonyms and related words : abject, abominable, acute, afflictive, agonizing, annihilation, arch, aristocratic, arrant, assemble, atrocious, august, autolithograph, awe-inspiring, awful, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
GRAVE — See: ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE, TURN IN ONE'S GRAVE or TURN OVER IN ONE'S GRAVE.
Slang English vocab
GRAVE — See: ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE, TURN IN ONE'S GRAVE or TURN OVER IN ONE'S GRAVE.
Словарь английских идиом
GRAVE — I adjective BAD : I don't have any grave problems. GOOD : I don't have any serious problems. BAD : …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
GRAVE — I 1. сущ. 1) а) могила; захоронение to dig a grave ≈ копать могилу to desecrate a grave ≈ осквернять …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
GRAVE — grave.ogg _I 1. greıv n 1. 1> могила mass grave - братская могила the paupers' grave - общая могила family …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
GRAVE — _I 1. greıv n 1. 1> могила mass grave - братская могила the paupers' grave - общая могила family grave …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
GRAVE — I ɡreɪv 1. сущ. 1) а) могила; захоронение to dig a grave — копать могилу to desecrate a grave — …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
GRAVE — I [±ЇўЎђ] grave.wav 1. сущ. 1) а) могила; захоронение to dig a grave — копать могилу to desecrate a grave — осквернять могилу unmarked grave — …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
GRAVE — _I _n. могила; _перен. смерть; to sink into the grave - сойти в могилу; to have one foot in the …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
GRAVE — I n. могила; перен. смерть; to sink into the grave - сойти в могилу; to have one foot in the …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
GRAVE — _I greɪv _n. могила; _перен. смерть; to sink into the grave сойти в могилу; to have one foot in the …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
GRAVE — I 1. сущ. 1) а) могила; захоронение to dig a grave ≈ копать могилу to desecrate a grave ≈ осквернять …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
GRAVE — a. grav (-itá), seriosi digni (mus.) bass, lent; n. tombe. ~YARD: jardin del mortes, sepultoria
English interlingue dictionary
GRAVE — grabe;lubong;masulub'on;seryos
English-Visayan vocabulary
GRAVE — I. transitive verb (~d; ~n or ~d; graving) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English grafan; akin to Old High German …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
GRAVE — (n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
Английский словарь Webster
GRAVE — (n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
Английский словарь Webster
GRAVE — (n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Английский словарь Webster
GRAVE — (superl.) Slow and solemn in movement.
Английский словарь Webster
GRAVE — (superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
Английский словарь Webster
GRAVE — (superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
Английский словарь Webster
GRAVE — (superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
Английский словарь Webster
GRAVE — (v. t.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so …
Английский словарь Webster
-GRAVE — () A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.
Английский словарь Webster
GRAVE — ( v. t. ) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — ( v. i. ) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — ( superl. ) Slow and solemn in movement.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — ( superl. ) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — ( superl. ) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — ( superl. ) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — ( n. ) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — ( n. ) To entomb; to bury.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — ( n. ) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — ( n. ) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — ( n. ) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — ( n. ) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
-GRAVE — A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAVE — adj. severe; serious, critical; somber, sober
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
GRAVE — v. engrave, inscribe; carve; sculpt
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
GRAVE — n. place where a person or thing is buried
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
-GRAVE — a final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. ·see margrave.
Webster English vocab
GRAVE — n. Graves' disease graving dock graven image
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
GRAVE — n. Pronunciation: ' grä-( ˌ )v ā Function: adverb or adjective Etymology: Italian, literally, grave, from Latin gravis Date: 1683 …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
GRAVE — n. Pronunciation: ' gr ā v, ' gräv Function: noun Date: 1609 : a grave accent ` used to show …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
GRAVE — n. Pronunciation: ' gr ā v, in sense 5 often ' gräv Function: adjective Inflected Form: grav · er ; …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab

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