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adjective
  1. Having great consequence or weight: earnest 1, heavy, momentous, serious, severe, weighty. See important
  2. Causing or marked by danger or pain, for example: dangerous, grievous, serious, severe. See help
  3. Portending future disaster: apocalyptic, apocalyptical, baneful, dire, direful, fateful, fire-and-brimstone, hellfire, ominous, portentous, unlucky. See luck, warn
  4. Full of or marked by dignity and seriousness: earnest 1, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, somber, staid. See attitude, heavy

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