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gravely

/ˈɡreɪvli/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈɡreɪvli/
gravely
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

gra - ve - ly -> gravely

Myanmar meaning

(adv) စိုးရိမ်ဖွယ်။လေးနက်စွာ။လေးဆေးတည်ငြိမ်စွာ။

Full entry

grave1 / greÇv / adj (-r, -st )

၁။ (fml ) လေးနက်သော။ အရေးကြီးသော။ စိုးရိမ်ဖွယ်ဖြစ်သော။ This could have grave consequences. ❍ a grave mistake/ error ❍ grave news/ danger ❍ have grave doubts about sth ❍ There is a grave risk of flooding. ❍ He is in a grave condition and needs immediate medical treatment.
၂။ လေးဆေးတည်ငြိမ်သော။ He looked grave. 'Is there anything wrong?' I asked.
❏ gravely adv စိုးရိမ်ဖွယ်။ လေးနက်စွာ။ လေးဆေး တည်ငြိမ်စွာ။ She is gravely ill. ❍ If you think that, you are gravely mistaken. ❍ ‘It's a confidential matter,’ he said gravely.

grave2 / greÇv / n

၁။ [C] သင်္ချိုင်းမြေပုံ။ အုတ်ဂူ။ strewing flowers on her grave ❍ visit sb's grave.
၂။ (often the grave ) [sing] (rhet ) သေခြင်း။ သင်္ချိုင်း။ Is there life beyond the grave (ie after death)? ❍ follow sb to the grave (ie die soon after them) ❍ go to an early grave (ie die young) ❍ He took his secret to the grave (ie died without revealing it).
❏ turn in one's grave [IDM ] (saying ) သေရာက ဒေါသ တနုံ့နုံ့ ဖြစ်သည်။ His grandfather must be turning in his grave at the way he's running the company.

grave3 / grɑ:v / (also grave accent) n

အသံလေးလေး ထွက်ရန် သရအက္ခရာပေါ်တင် ပြသော () သဲင်္ကေတ။

More examples
  • He’s never even visited his mother’s grave.
  • His secret will go with me to the grave (=I will die without telling anyone).
  • [beyond the grave] : It seemed to him like a voice from beyond the grave (=the voice of a dead person).
Synonyms
serious, severe, weighty, momentous, crucial, critical, vital, important, acute, afflictive, burial chamber, burial place, carve, catacomb, cold sober, consequential, crosshatch, crypt, dangerous, deadly, deadpan, destructive, diaper, diapering, dignified, dire, dour, dull, earnest, eat into, enchase, enchasing, engrave, etch, exigent, fatal, fateful, fell, final resting place, forbidding, foreboding, furrowed, graved, grievous, grim, grim-faced, hacked, hacking, hazardous, heavy, initialing, initialling, initials, insculpt, intaglio, killing, last home, leaden, lettering, life-and-death, lithograph, lithographed, long-faced, major, mausoleum, meaningful, mezzotint, mould, mound, muted, no-nonsense, of great consequence, ominous, perilous, permanent address, place of interment, ponderous, pound, pressing, quiet, re-present, resting place, rough-hew, rough-hewn, roughhew, roughhewn, sad, sage, saturnine, sculpt, sculpted, sculpting, sedate, sepulcher, serious; gloomy, set forth, setting forth, shrine, significant, six feet under, sober, solemn, somber, staid, stamp, strictly business, subdued, thoughtful, threatening, tomb, tooled, tooling, ugly, unsmiling, urgent, vault
Antonyms
agitated, boisterous, cheerful, excited, favorable, frivolous, funny, happy, inconsequential, insignificant, light, little, lively, minor, ridiculous, silly, small, trivial, unimportant
Cross references
serioussevereweightymomentouscrucialcriticalvitalimportantacuteafflictiveburial chamberburial placecarvecatacombcold soberconsequentialcrosshatchcryptdangerousdeadlydeadpandestructivediaperdiaperingdignifieddiredourdull
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