Word Meanings - GRAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRAVE)

• Deliberate
• Grave
• purposed
• intentional
• designed
• determined
• resolute
• earnest
• unbiased
• unprejudiced
• Demure
• Sedate
• staid
• grave
• modest
• downcast
• sober
• dispassionate
• prudish
• discreet
• Earnest
• Eager
• serious
• intent
• strenuous
• solemn
• warm
• fervent
• intense
• ardent
• Important
• Significant
• expressive
• relevant
• main
• leading
• considerable
• great
• dignified
• influential
• weighty
• momentous
• material
• essential
• Sad
• Heavy
• dull
• sorrowful
• woe-begone
• calamitous
• dismal
• doleful
• mournful
• gloomy
• dejected
• depressed
• cheerless
• grievous
• melancholy
• saturnine

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GRAVE)

• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk

Related words: (words related to GRAVE)

• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• DEMURE
  good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• SOLEMNIZATION
  The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• SOLEMNIZE
  1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• ARDENT
  1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• SEDATE
  Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
• SOLEMN
  Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious;
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.