grave

Speech parts

1. grave - Noun

2. grave - Adjective

3. grave - Verb

5. grave - Adjective Satellite

6. Grave - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.

Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.

Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.

Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.

Slow and solemn in movement.

To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.

To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

To entomb; to bury.

To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

weighty serious solemn sober important severe dangerous thoughtful momentous sedate tomb sepulchre sepulcher heavy sage
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Antonyms

merry lite fay Mickey Mouse small good
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Hypernyms

death place spot dying accent demise

Hyponyms

sepulchre sepulcher character sepulture burial chamber mastaba

Phrases with the word

the grave from cradle to grave from the cradle to the grave beyond the grave dig one's own grave turn over in one's grave

Derivatives

graved graven graving

Anagrams

Garve Gaver

Examples

Let all partake of the feast of faith. Let all receive the riches of goodness. Let no one lament their poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed. Let no one mourn their transgressions, for pardon has dawned from the grave. Let no one fear death, for the Saviour's death has set us free. John Chrysostom

Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave. Quentin Crisp

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. Dorothy Dix

Your woman should be in the house or in the grave. Somali Proverb

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave. American Proverb

A dead man does not know where his grave is. Bantu Proverb

Close letter words and terms

gravastar gravatar Gravatt grave accent grave affair grave as a judge