Gravest Synonyms and Antonyms

Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. weightiest
  2. heaviest
  3. severest
  4. earnest
Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. soberest
  2. severest
  3. quietest
  4. earnest
  5. demurest
Antonyms:
  1. happiest
  2. silliest
  3. funniest
Causing or marked by danger or pain, for example
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. severest
Portending future disaster
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. unluckiest
  2. direst

Gravest Sentence Examples

  • Perhaps the gravest obstacles were to be expected from the army.

  • The economic situation was of the gravest.

  • In fact, the gravest threat facing the West is that posed by Islamic fundamentalism.

  • Under his hand the most trifling subjects gained a new importance; yet he treated the gravest with a touch so light that he seemed to have invented the sciences rather than learnt them, for he was always a creator, always original, and himself was imitable of none."

  • The gravest problem of mining in the interior country, even graver than that presented by the climate, is transportation; in 1900 the Tanana fields, for example, were provisioned from Circle City, about 125 m.

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