grave
/ɡɹeɪv/ adjective C2- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness.
- Low in pitch, tone etc.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
- Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
Comparative graver · Superlative gravest
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“I did; but his face would become very grave and he would shake his head.
Holmes’s face was very white and grave.
“Why, this is the way of it,” said the minister, with the gravest air in the world: “Napoleon lately had a review, and as two or three of his old veterans expressed a desire to return to France, he gave them their dismissal, and exhorted them to ‘serve the good king.’ These were his own words, of that I am certain.”
I ain’t afeared of anything on this side o’ the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o’ the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.
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