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Definitions for Graveness

[1] serious or solemn; sober: a grave person; grave thoughts.
[2] weighty, momentous, or important: grave responsibilities.
[3] threatening a seriously bad outcome or involving serious issues; critical: a grave situation; a grave illness.
[4] Grammar . unaccented. spoken on a low or falling pitch. noting or having a particular accent (`) indicating originally a comparatively low pitch (as in French père ), distinct syllabic value (as in English belovèd ), etc. (opposed to acute).
[5] (of colors) dull; somber.
[6] the grave accent.
[7] a place for the burial of a corpse, esp beneath the ground and usually marked by a tombstone Related adjective: sepulchral
[8] something resembling a grave or resting place the ship went to its grave
[9] the grave a poetic term for death
[10] have one foot in the grave informal to be near death
[11] to make someone turn in his grave or to make someone turn over in his grave to do something that would have shocked or distressed (someone now dead) many modern dictionaries would make Dr Johnson turn in his grave
[12] serious and solemn a grave look
[13] full of or suggesting danger a grave situation
[14] important; crucial grave matters of state
[15] (of colours) sober or dull
[16] phonetics (of a vowel or syllable in some languages with a pitch accent, such as ancient Greek) spoken on a lower or falling musical pitch relative to neighbouring syllables or vowels of or relating to an accent (`) over vowels, denoting a pronunciation with lower or falling musical pitch (as in ancient Greek), with certain special quality (as in French), or in a manner that gives the vowel status as a syllable nucleus not usually possessed by it in that position (as in English agèd ) Compare acute (def. 8), circumflex
[17] a grave accent
[18] to cut, carve, sculpt, or engrave
[19] to fix firmly in the mind
[20] (tr) nautical to clean and apply a coating of pitch to (the bottom of a vessel)
[21] music to be performed in a solemn manner

Words related to Graveness

gravemomentousness, sobriety, exigency, solemnity, staidness, seriousness, sedateness, acuteness, significance, consequence, concern, urgency, severity, weightiness, solemnness

Words nearby Graveness

gravegraupel, graustark, grav, gravadlax, gravamen, grave, grave clothes, grave-wax, graveclothes, gravedigger, gravel

Origin of Graveness

21535–45; < Middle French < Latin gravis; akin to Greek barýs heavy

Words that may be confused with Graveness

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, gravegravely, gravelly

Other words from Graveness

grave·ly , adverb
grave·ness , noun
un·grave·ly , adverb

Word origin for Graveness

C17: from Italian: heavy, from Latin gravis

Synonyms for Graveness

acuteness, concern, consequence, exigency, hazardousness, momentousness, perilousness, sedateness, seriousness, severity, significance, sobriety, solemnity, staidness, urgency, weightiness, solemnness