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graveadjective having a matter of importance as its topicleaving gossip and celebrities to other magazines, this journal focuses on the grave issues confronting the nation heavy, serious, weighty big, consequential, eventful, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, portentous, significant, solid, substantial light, unserious frivolous, insignificant, lite, little, Mickey Mouse, minor, silly, slight, small, trivial, unimportant involving potential loss or injurygoing over Niagara Falls poses a grave danger dangerous, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, unhealthy, unsafe, venturesome dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertainultrahazardouschance, haphazard, randomdistressing, sickening, unpleasantugly, wickedadverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilentdeadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous harmless, innocent, innocuous, nonhazardous, nonthreatening, safe, unthreatening advantageous, beneficial, goodultrasafe not joking or playful in mood or mannerwhen I asked him how his dog was doing, he looked grave and said, "Not good" earnest, humorless, no-nonsense, po-faced(British), sedate, serious, severe, sober, sobersided, solemn, staid, uncomic, unsmiling, weighty harsh, stern, strictbusinesslike, professionaldignified, distinguished, elevated, serious-mindedgloomy, grim facetious, flip, flippant, humorous, jesting, jocular, joking, kittenish, ludic, playful antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, hysterical(also hysteric), laughable, light, light-headed, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, uproariousfeatherbrained, flighty, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, lighthearted, puerile, scatterbrainedabsurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, fatuous, foolish, half-witted, insane, jerky, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, unwise, wacky(also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany having a low musical pitch or rangea grave hexachord bass, deep, low, throaty boomy, tubbygruff, hoarse, husky, rough, smoky(also smokey) acute, high, high-pitched, piping, sharp, shrill, treble squeaking, squeaky, squealing, thinearsplitting, penetrating, piercing, stridentpeeping, tinny to cut (as letters or designs) on a hard surfacethe doomed climber graved his initials into the rock face engrave, etch, incise, inscribe, insculp(archaic) carve, chisel, sculpt, sculpturechase, groove, indent, notchscore, traceaffix, impress a final resting place for a dead personthe forlorn boy put flowers on his mother's grave burial, sepulchre(or sepulcher), sepulture, tomb catacomb, charnel(also charnel house), columbarium, crypt, mausoleum, vaultcemetery, churchyard, graveyard, potter's fieldbarrow, mound, tumulus the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activitiesa rock star who found his early grave in a plane crash curtains, death, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, great divide, passage, passing, quietus, sleep casualty, fatalitymartyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicideannihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruinassassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter birth, nativity existence, lifecreation, genesis, origination, rise the state of being deada terrible fear of the grave dead, deadness, death, lifelessness, nothingness, sleep mortality existence, life immortalitylife span, lifetime adj.serious, grave, solemn, sedate, staid, sober, earnest mean not light or frivolous.serious implies a concern for what really matters.a serious play about social injustice grave implies both seriousness and dignity in expression or attitude.read the proclamation in a grave voice solemn suggests an impressive gravity utterly free from levity.a sad and solemn occasion sedate implies a composed and decorous seriousness.remained sedate amid the commotion staid suggests a settled, accustomed sedateness and prim self-restraint.a quiet and staid community sober stresses seriousness of purpose and absence of levity or frivolity.a sober look at the state of our schools earnest suggests sincerity or often zealousness of purpose.an earnest reformer before the 12th century |