graver
Increasingly somber situation
Graver is the comparative form of grave: more serious, more solemn, more weighty.
A graver threat demands more attention than a minor one.
The situation grew graver by the hour.
Separately, a graver is a tool for engraving—a burin used to cut into metal, wood, or stone.
Pointed engraving implement
- chiselEdged carving implement
- etcherOne who incises designs
- carverOne who cuts shapes
- goldsmithPrecious metal artisan
silversmith · jeweler · metalsmith · stonecutter · sculptor · lapidary · printmaker · woodcarver
Acid-incised metal print
- incisionControlled cut into tissue
- intaglioCarving cut below surface
- woodcutRelief print from timber
- linocutPrint from carved linoleum
mezzotint · aquatint · drypoint · sgraffito · relief · inscription · lettering · printmaking
Expressing disapproval or importance
- urgentNeeding immediate attention
- seriousWeighty and requiring attention
- acuteIntensely severe or perceptive
- severeExtremely harsh or strict
alarming · pressing · crucial · perilous · dangerous · threatening · ominous · precarious
Text honoring the deceased
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
- headstoneMemorial slab marking burial
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- plaqueInscribed memorial tablet
cenotaph · gravestone · memorial · dedication · inscription · eulogy · epigraphy · mason
Serious and dignified
- earnestSincerely intense in purpose
- severeExtremely harsh or strict
- sternStrict or ship's aft
- weightyHeavy or significant
somber · sober · sedate · staid · thoughtful · pensive · reflective · unsmiling
Showing or feeling grief
- funerealGloomily solemn in manner
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- gloomyDark and dispiriting
- lugubriousExaggeratedly mournful in manner
sepulchral · elegiac · doleful · sorrowful · bleak · dismal · forlorn · plaintive
burin
Pointed engraving implement
goldsmith · silversmith · jeweler · metalsmith · stonecutter · sculptor · lapidary · printmaker · woodcarver · gem-cutter
etching
Acid-incised metal print
linocut · mezzotint · aquatint · drypoint · sgraffito · relief · inscription · lettering · printmaking · hatching
critical
Expressing disapproval or importance
- urgentNeeding immediate attention
- seriousWeighty and requiring attention
- acuteIntensely severe or perceptive
severe · alarming · pressing · crucial · perilous · dangerous · threatening · ominous · precarious · grievous
epitaph
Text honoring the deceased
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
- headstoneMemorial slab marking burial
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
plaque · cenotaph · gravestone · memorial · dedication · inscription · eulogy · epigraphy · mason · stonecutter
solemn
Serious and dignified
weighty · somber · sober · sedate · staid · thoughtful · pensive · reflective · unsmiling · humorless
mournful
Showing or feeling grief
- funerealGloomily solemn in manner
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- gloomyDark and dispiriting
lugubrious · sepulchral · elegiac · doleful · sorrowful · bleak · dismal · forlorn · plaintive · wistful
- sealsharbor seal, gasket, o-ring, O-ring, airtight seal
- printmakingprints, print, printing, woodcuts, woodcut
- engravingburin, etching, copper plates, intaglio, steel plates
- engraving toolsburin, scribe, scriber, stylus, chisel
- wood engravingburin, crosshatching, stippling, woodblock, proof
- woodcutwoodcut, woodblock, block printing, burin, gouge
graverlighter
Comparative of not heavy
pettier · noncritical · frivolous · unimportant · slighter
- cradle to graveEntire span of existence
- graven imagesCarved objects of worship
- one foot in the graveNear death's door
- dig one's own graveCause one's own undoing
- mass graveShared burial for many
- rolled in one's graveImagined corpse distress
grave, engrave, engraving, engraved, graves, engraver, engraves, engravings, engravers