GRAVEST Synonyms

• concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities

• completely lacking in playfulness

• of great consequence

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• appealing to the mind

• requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve

• dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

• characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions

• of great significance or value

• important in effect or meaning

• of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

• having authority or ascendancy or influence

• having or suggesting a consciousness of high position

• of very great significance

• having relatively great weight; heavy

• powerfully persuasive

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry

• excessively fat

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

• very strong or vigorous

• severely simple

• unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• very bad in degree or extent

• having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course

• of an angle; less than 90 degrees

• a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

• extremely sharp or severe

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• ending in a sharp point

• of critical importance and consequence

• marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws

• at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction

• characterized by careful evaluation and judgment

• being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency

• of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism

• urgently needed; absolutely necessary

• forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis

• of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

• having crucial relevance

• of the greatest importance

• fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless

• causing fear or dread or terror

• showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth

• of the greatest intensity; complete

• far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something

• coming from deep within one

• (of sleep) deep and complete

• situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed

• important in effect or meaning

• too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation

• of considerable importance, size, or worth

• rich in significance or implication

• lacking brightness or color; dull

• grave or even gloomy in character

• having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary

• of considerable importance, size, or worth

• of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something

• providing abundant nourishment

• of good quality and condition; solidly built

• having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

• characterized by dignity and propriety

• dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

• cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to

• not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

• completely lacking in playfulness

• dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

• lacking brightness or color; dull

• cause to become sober

• become more realistic

• become sober after excessive alcohol consumption

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• causing or marked by grief or anguish

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• shockingly brutal or cruel

• lacking brightness or color; dull

• grave or even gloomy in character

• characterized by dignity and propriety

• involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm