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Definition of grave : 1. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
2. Not acute or sharp; low; deep; - said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
3. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
4. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
5. Slow and solemn in movement.
6. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
7. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
8. 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.
9. To dig. [ Obs.] Chaucer.
10. To entomb; to bury.
11. To impress deeply ( on the mind); to fix indelibly.
12. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

Synonyms:

operose, enrol, expunge, strike, stamp, distressing, cancel, black, come up, laborious, churchyard, sepulcher, leaden, sobersided, carve, sculpture, dark, heartrending, accent, death rate, encipher, code, overweight, autograph, unsafe, intemperate, venturesome, hazardous, sonorous, cedilla, ponderous, stern, dolmen, no-nonsense, staid, sound, punishing, telling, sincere, disturbing, terrible, threatening, heartbreaking, cinerarium, burial ground, gravestone, anxious, vault, bleak, fret, unsmiling, jeopardizing, barrow, inscribe, desperate, beatific, backbreaking, rub, grievous, cipher, sombre, mortality, encrypt, enceinte, curious, appealing, tomb, great, impress, etch, stressful, po-faced, toilsome, bug-eyed, awful, extreme, tense, brooding, call off, bass, expectant, engrave, scratch, dying, austere, ossuary, dangerous, with child, profound, cloggy, unhealthy, keep, catacomb, parlous, headstone, diacritic, absent, life-threatening, graveyard, laboured, bereavement, rotund, recruit, perilous, dense, scrub, crypt, death, lowering, knockout, itch, arduous, hard, sepulture, gravid, corpulent, gruelling, humorless, big, atrocious, wicked, good, sullen, weighed down, alarming, scrape, large, grave accent, rigorous, heavy, monstrous, fix, tilde, weighty, acute, enroll, sculpt, severe, clayey, cemetery, incise, MARKS, excise, menacing, fleshy, fatality, darkly, umlaut, death toll, flagitious, grueling, throaty, impenetrable, imprint, scrape up, graveside, enter, circumflex, chafe, obese, fray, stark, labored, low, death throes, dire, worrying, cypher, write in code, dieresis, of import, cogent, wakeless, spartan, risky, unplayful, scratch up, Mausoleum, uncomic, drab, demise, place, lumbering, morbidity

ominous

grim, demure, sober, intense, sedate, solemn, dignified, earnest, somber

heavyweight, world-shaking, notable, important, prominent, crucial, big-name, influential, distinguished, big-wig, momentous, considerable, earthshaking, consequential, pivotal, salient, serious, critical, noteworthy, high-powered, eminent

Usage examples:

• But you must learn to forget me, or to think of me as one already in her grave. - "The Prime Minister", W.H.G. Kingston.
• " 'Twas so we could find out where we stood," the grave voice went on. - "Country Neighbors", Alice Brown.
• So Rosy's face, though grave, had a nice look the first time Beata saw it, and the first words she said as they kissed each other were, O Rosy, how pretty you are! - "Rosy", Mrs. Molesworth.