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What is the adjective for graver?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb grave which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

grave
  1. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative. [16th-18th c.]
  2. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre. [from 16th c.]
  3. Low in pitch, tone etc. [from 17th c.]
  4. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable. [from 19th c.]
  5. Synonyms:
      6. solemn, serious, earnest, sober, somber, saturnine, sedate, staid, subdued, weighty, severe, deadpan, dignified, dour, gloomy, grim, humourless, leaden, sage, sobersided, sombre, unsmiling, forbidding, humorless, muted, ponderous, quiet, sad, thoughtful, uncomic, cold sober, no-nonsense, long-faced, grim-faced, strictly business, po-faced, stone-faced, stony-faced, stern, austere, sullen, glum, flinty, fierce, steely, gruff, unfriendly, intimidating, louring, sour … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “Captain Graham sat in his room, a letter in his hand, a grave expression on his face, now very dark and bronzed from the burning Indian sun.”
      “I beg forgiveness for interrupting your meeting, but I bring grave news that cannot wait.”
      “There is a grave possibility that the company will be held liable for the unscrupulous acts of their salespersons.”
graven
  1. carved, engraved
  2. Something fashioned by man, or something man-made. Anything made by man's hands.
  3. Something that is not alive, but made dead, from the grave.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. engraved, etched, carved, sculpted, sculptured, emblazoned, embossed, imprinted, inscribed, lithographed … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The graven images on the ancient temple walls depicted scenes from mythological tales.”
gravelike
  1. Resembling a grave (burial place) or some aspect of one.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. funereal, sepulchral, sepulchrous, tomblike
  3. Examples:
      4. “The cold, damp atmosphere of the abandoned cellar was gravelike, with a haunting stillness that reminded me of a forgotten burial place.”
graver
  1. comparative form of grave: more grave
  2. Synonyms:
      3. higher, more urgent, more critical, more important, more considerable, more uppermost, more elevated, archer, more crucial, more essential, more necessary, seriouser, more vital, weightier, more significant, more consequential, more momentous, acuter, more exigent, more pressing, more major, more far-reaching, more substantial, more pivotal, direr, more decisive, heavier, more profound, severer, more burning, more imperative, more key, more material, more monumental, more compelling, more desperate, more historic, more drastic, bigger, greater, more portentous, more eventful, more solemn, more heavy-duty, more fundamental, earnester, more meaningful, more importunate, intenser, more necessitous … more
graveless
  1. Without a grave; unburied.
gravely
  1. Characterised by gravel, pebbles, or small stones.
gravestoned
  1. Having gravestones.
graveward
  1. which leads toward the grave
gravest
  1. superlative form of grave: most grave
  2. Synonyms:
      3. seriousest, earnestest, soberest, somberest, staidest, weightiest, severest, dourest, gloomiest, grimmest, sagest, sombrest, quietest, saddest, most solemn, most saturnine, most sedate, most subdued, most deadpan, most dignified, most humourless, most leaden, most sobersided, most forbidding, most humorless, most ponderous, most thoughtful, most uncomic, most no-nonsense, most po-faced, most stone-faced, most stony-faced, direst, most dismal, wretchedest, miserablest, awfullest, most dreadful, bleakest, most cheerless, terriblest, most depressing, most grievous, most distressing, glummest, most appalling, sullenest, dreariest, baddest, horriblest … more
graved
  1. simple past tense of grave
  2. Synonyms:
      3. engraved, etched, inscribed, incised, insculped, cut, carved, marked, scored, printed, cut in, chased, chiseled, chiselled, impressed, imprinted, corve, carven, notched, branded, scratched, stamped, embossed, debossed, scotched, indented, infixed, cast, ingrained, engrained, sculptured, scraped, identified, labeled, labelled, scribed, enchased, furrowed, initialled, ornamented, initialed, intaglioed, fixed, fixt, punched, emblazoned, tooled, franked, dented, hammered … more
graving
  1. present participle of grave
  2. Synonyms:
      3. engraving, etching, inscribing, incising, insculping, carving, marking, scoring, printing, chasing, cutting, chiseling, chiselling, impressing, imprinting, notching, branding, scratching, stamping, embossing, debossing, cutting in, scotching, indenting, infixing, ingraining, engraining, sculpturing, scraping, furrowing, scribing, enchasing, ornamenting, initialling, intaglioing, initialing, tooling, labelling, identifying, labeling, fixing, punching, franking, molding, driving, hammering, lettering, moulding, casting, denting … more
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