grave
2 (grāv)
[French, from Old French, from Latin gravis.]
adjective: grav·er, grav·est.
- Requiring serious thought; momentous: a grave decision in a time of crisis.
- Fraught with danger or harm: a grave wound.
- Dignified and somber in conduct or character: a grave procession. See synonyms at serious
- Somber or dark in hue.
- Linguistics
- Written with or modified by the mark ( ` ), as the è in Sèvres.
- Of or referring to a phonetic feature that distinguishes sounds produced at the periphery of the vocal tract, as in labial and velar consonants and back vowels.
noun
Linguistics- A mark ( ` ) indicating a pronounced e for the sake of meter in the usually nonsyllabic ending -ed in English poetry.
derivatives
- gravély
- adverb
- gravéness
- noun
