• adj.
    ⦿of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
    lexical concept
  • a grievous fault
  • faced a grave decision in a time of crisis
  • grave responsibilities
  • heavy matters of state
  • the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:grave
  2. enl:grievous
  3. enl:heavy
  4. enl:weighty
wn:interlingual indexili:i6980

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelgravegrievousheavyweighty