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Meaning of गंभीर in English

  • of Cripple
  • Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.
  • A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.
  • 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.
  • Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
  • Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
  • Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
  • Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
  • Slow and solemn in movement.
  • To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  • To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  • To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
  • To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  • To entomb; to bury.
  • To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
  • An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
  • Not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription.
  • Not derived from, or dependent on, external authority; self-evidencing; obvious.
  • Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.
  • Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies.
  • Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper.
  • Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.
  • Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving.
  • Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.
  • Hence, giving rise to apprehension; attended with danger; as, a serious injury.
  • Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.
  • Very strict in judgment, discipline, or government; harsh; not mild or indulgent; rigorous; as, severe criticism; severe punishment.
  • Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle; exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; -- said of style, argument, etc.
  • Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as, severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold.
  • Difficult to be endured; exact; critical; rigorous; as, a severe test.
  • Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.
  • Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.
  • Stately; ceremonious; grand.
  • Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.
  • Real; earnest; downright.
  • Affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.
  • Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.
  • Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.
  • Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical dissertation.
  • Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious.
  • Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
  • Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.
  • Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation.
  • Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide.
  • Wicked; felonious.
  • An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.
  • An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt.
  • A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment.
  • of Gravel
  • The act of covering with gravel.
  • A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).
  • A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.
  • Having a rank smell.
  • One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.
  • An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.
  • Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
  • A West African antelope (Cephalophus rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called also conquetoon.
  • Alt. of Sombre

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