Gravity
Personified downward force
Gravity is the force that pulls objects toward each other—most noticeably, the force that pulls everything toward Earth's center.
What goes up must come down.
The word extends to weightiness of manner or situation: a matter of great gravity demands serious attention.
Someone who speaks with gravity is solemn and earnest, not flippant.
The physical and figurative senses share an underlying heaviness—gravity is what makes things weighty, whether masses or matters.
Strength or compulsion
- massQuantity of matter
- accelerationRate velocity changes
- NewtonFamous scientific surname
- weightMeasure of heaviness
attraction · falling · spacetime · Einstein · relativity · orbit · pull · constant
Curved celestial path
- satelliteOrbiting celestial body
- black holeCollapsed star's remnant
- singularityPoint where values explode
- tidalOf sea rhythms
moon · planet · solar system · cosmic · slingshot · escape velocity · lensing · waves
Serious and dignified
- weightyHeavy or significant
- somberGravely serious in mood
- seriousWeighty and requiring attention
- importanceState of mattering
magnitude · significance · consequence · urgency · dire · momentous · critical · severity
force
Strength or compulsion
- massQuantity of matter
- accelerationRate velocity changes
- NewtonFamous scientific surname
weight · attraction · falling · spacetime · Einstein · relativity · orbit · pull · constant · field
orbit
Curved celestial path
- satelliteOrbiting celestial body
- black holeCollapsed star's remnant
- singularityPoint where values explode
tidal · moon · planet · solar system · cosmic · slingshot · escape velocity · lensing · waves · collapse
solemn
Serious and dignified
importance · magnitude · significance · consequence · urgency · dire · momentous · critical · severity · earnest
dignified
Composed and respectable
stately · reverent · measured · austere · reserved · decorum · formality · bearing · comportment · stoic
- 2013 FilmsAmerican Hustle, Dallas Buyers Club, Captain Phillips, Nebraska, Philomena
- A Perfect CircleJudith, Orestes
- moviesblockbuster, film, Titanic, films, Jurassic Park
- blockbustersAvengers, Harry Potter, Finding Nemo, The Dark Knight, Spider-Man
- survival storiesescape story, wilderness survival, shipwreck tales, shipwreck, sea survival
- Warner BrosBugs Bunny, Tweety, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Porky Pig
Gravityantigravity
Force opposing downward pull
anti-gravity · levitation · weightlessness · zero gravity · zero-g
Gravitylevity
Lack of seriousness
frivolity · lightheartedness · playfulness · flippancy · gaiety
Gravitytriviality
Unimportant small matter
insignificance · unimportance · pettiness · frivolousness · inconsequence
- center of gravityEquilibrium point of mass
- zero gravityAbsence of apparent weight
- centres of gravityBalance points of mass
- gravitational pullAttractive force between masses
- defying gravityOvercoming downward force
- high gravity
gravitate, gravitation, gravitational, gravitationally, gravitas, graviton, gravid, gravidity