- grave
- In1. crypt, tomb, vault, sepulcher, burial chamber, burial pit, mausoleum; last home, long home, low house, wooden house, narrow house; coffin, casket, Sl. wooden kimono or overcoat.2. death, decease, demise, expiration, end, rest, eternal rest.3. have one foot in the gravedying, expiring, going, slipping, sinking, fading or fading fast; near death, at death's door, knocking on heaven's door, on one's deathbed, Inf. on one's last legs, Latin, in extremis.IIadj1. sedate, staid, sober, solemn, serious, somber; thoughtful, earnest, pensive, preoccupied; grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, stone-faced, frowning, unsmiling.2. weighty, momentous, important, all-important, essential, of the essence, vital, Inf. gut; critical, crucial, pivotal, eventful, climacteric; dangerous, hazardous, perilous.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.