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grave, a. important, momentous, serious; sober, solemn, staid, demure, sedate, quiet, thoughtful, subdued, sepulchral.
grave, n. tomb, sepulcher, charnel-house, ossuary, sepulture; tumulus, barrow.
grave-clothes, n. pl. cerements, shroud, winding-sheet.
gravel, n. pebbles, grit, s.h.i.+ngle; arena; gravelstone, pebble, calculus.
graven, a. carved, sculptured.
graver, n. engraver, sculptor; burin.
grave wax. adipocere.
gray, a. h.o.a.ry; slate, drab, maltese, mouse-colored.
grease, n. lubricant, fat.--v. lubricate.
greaser, n. lubricant, lubricator.
greasy, a. sebaceous, oily, unctuous, oleaginous, fatty.
great, a. immense, enormous, prodigious, gigantic; numerous, countless; superior, excellent, admirable; eminent, famous, ill.u.s.trious, distinguished, renowned, famed, noted; egregious, flagrant, serious, grievous; fabulous, excessive, immoderate, exorbitant.
greatest, a. supreme, superlative, utmost, maximum.
greatest good. _summum bonum_.
great-hearted, a. magnanimous.
great-heartedness, n. magnanimity.
great spirit. Manito (Amer. Ind.)
greediness, n. avarice, voracity, avidity, covetousness, rapacity, gluttony, insatiableness, cupidity.
greedy, a. avaricious, grasping; sordid, covetous; insatiable, ravenous, voracious, gluttonous, rapacious; insatiate.
greedy-gut, n. (Low) glutton, gormand.
Greek, a. Grecian, h.e.l.lenic.
Greek, n. Grecian, h.e.l.lene; Romaic, h.e.l.lenic, Neo-h.e.l.lenic.
Greek, n. (Colloq.) mystery.
green, a. verdant, emerald, virid, virescent; immature, unripe; raw, untrained, callow, unsophisticated, awkward, inexperienced, unskilled, undisciplined, gullible; unseasoned; fresh, undecayed. Antonyms: sear, parched, seasoned, ripe, experienced, veteran.
greenhorn, n. (Colloq.) tyro, novice, gull, dupe, yahoo, gudgeon.
greenhouse, n. conservatory.
green manuring. sideration.
greenness, n. verdancy, viridity, verdure; rawness, immaturity, unripeness; inexperience, unsophisticatedness, gullibility..
greensand, n. marl.
green-sickness, n. chlorosis.
greet, v. address, salute, hail, accost.
greeting, n. salutation, salute.
grief, n. anguish, sorrow, heartbreak, regret, remorse, dolor, misery, heartache, woe, tribulation, rue, affliction, bereavement, trial, adversity, distress, grievance.
grievance, n. wrong, injustice, resentment, trouble, complaint, gravamen (Law).
grieve, v. mourn, regret, lament, rue, weep, sorrow, bewail, deplore; wound, afflict, try, distress, pain.
grievous, a. afflictive, distressing, deplorable, lamentable, painful; heinous, atrocious, flagitious, outrageous, flagrant, egregious, nefarious; plaintive, pitiful.
grill, n. gridiron, broiler.
grilling, n. broiling, grillade.
grimy, a. begrimed.
grind, v. crush, powder, pulverize, comminute, bruise, bray, triturate, levigate; hara.s.s, persecute, oppress.
grind, n. grinding, pulverization; (Slang) drudgery; (Slang) dig.
grinder, n. abradant.
grinding, n. pulverization, trituration, crus.h.i.+ng, levigation.--a. abradant.
grinding stone. millstone, muller, metate.
grip, n. clutch, grasp; (Colloq.) grippe.
grip, n. (Colloq.) gripsack, valise, satchel, traveling-bag.
grip, v. seize, clutch, grasp, clinch.
gripes, n. pl. colic.
griping, n. gripes, colic.
grippe, n. influenza.
