Grave

Part of Speech

noun

Difficulty Level

Translations

🇩🇪 Eine sehr ernste Situation. , 🇪🇸 Situación muy grave. , 🇮🇹 Una situazione molto grave , 🇵🇹 uma situação muito séria , 🇨🇳 严重的 , 🇯🇵 真剣な、深刻な , 🇰🇷 심각한 , 🇸🇦 حالة خطيرة للغاية , 🇮🇳 बहुत गंभीर स्थिति

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Etymology

French noun **grave** (meaning “serious situation”) comes from the Old French adjective **grave** “heavy, weighty, severe”, which in turn is borrowed from Latin *gravis* (“heavy, serious”). *Gravis* is derived from the Proto‑Indo‑European root *gʰrā-* meaning “to weigh”, giving the sense of something weighty or grave. The noun form is a later nominalization of the adjective, used mainly in modern French to denote the seriousness of a matter.

Synonyms

situation critique situation alarmante situation périlleuse situation désastreuse situation dangereuse situation délicate situation inquiétante situation catastrophique

Antonyms

légèreté bénignité insignifiance relâchement non-importance