Graver Synonyms and Antonyms

grāvər
Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. weightier
  2. severer
  3. quieter
  4. heavier
Antonyms:
  1. happier
  2. sillier
  3. funnier
Causing or marked by danger or pain, for example
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. severer
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Portending future disaster
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. unluckier
  2. direr
A tool used by an engraver
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. graving tool
  2. pointel
  3. pointrel

Words Related to Graver

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. burin
  2. stothard
  3. lukis
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Graver Sentence Examples

  • Still graver was the effect upon the regular army.

  • Ully's face was graver than Toby had seen it, and his wiry body was tense.

  • Distinct from all these courts, if similar in its sphere, is the court which the Italian quarter generally enjoyed in each town under its own consuls - a court privileged to try all but the graver cases, like murder, theft and forgery.

  • An even graver source of error was Ptolemy's acceptance of a degree of Soo instead of 700 stadia.

  • About the same time the republic was exposed to still graver danger by the conspiracy of some of its leading citizens to seize the reins of power and place the city under the suzerainty of Alphonso, as it had once been under that of the duke of Milan.

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