Usually means: Most serious, severe, or important.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. gravest: Merriam-Webster
  2. gravest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gravest: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gravest, gravest: Wordnik
  5. gravest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gravest: Wiktionary
  7. Gravest, gravest: Dictionary.com
  8. gravest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. gravest: FreeDictionary.org
  10. gravest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gravest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gravest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gravest: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. gravest: Medical dictionary

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  1. gravest: Idioms

(Note: See grave as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Grave)

noun:  (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
noun:  (loosely) Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
noun:  (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.
noun:  (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.
noun:  (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
adjective:  Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
adjective:  Low in pitch, tone etc.
adjective:  Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
adjective:  (phonology, dated, of a sound) Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
adjective:  (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
noun:  A grave accent.
noun:  (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
noun:  A surname.
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