Ant. Compulsory, involuntary, obligatory, necessitated, warranted, well-founded; unwilling, enforced, enjoined.

Grave, a. Important, weighty, serious, cogent, momentous; sober, sedate, thoughtful, staid, solemn; plain, subdued, quiet, silent; sad, pressing, demure, somber, aggravated, heavy.

Ant. Joyous, merry, unimportant, facetious, ridiculous, trivial, light, frivolous, futile, trifling, petty, slight.

Great. Large, big, vast, huge, bulky, ample, immense, gigantic, enormous; much, excessive, high; numerous, countless; considerable, important, weighty; distinguished, eminent, exalted, prominent, excellent, elevated, celebrated, noted, famed, illustrious, famous, renowned; august, grand, dignified, noble, sublime, majestic, lofty; generous, magnanimous, chivalrous, high-minded; sumptuous, rich, magnificent; difficult, onerous, hard, burdensome, grievous; chief, principal, main, leading, grand; superior, preëminent; protracted, noticeable.

Ant. Little, narrow, scanty, puny, few, short, mean, ignoble, weak, unimportant.

Greediness. Avidity, hunger, voracity, ravenousness, gluttony; eagerness, longing, greed, intense desire; grasping, avarice, rapacity, selfishness.

Ant. Generosity, prodigality, benevolence.

Greedy. Voracious, ravenous, insatiable, gluttonous, insatiate, rapacious; eager, desirous; selfish, grasping, avaricious; hungry.

Ant. Abstemious, abstinent, contented, apathetic, indifferent; generous, unselfish.

Grief. Bitterness, misery, agony, anguish, heartache, heartbreak; trial, grievance; melancholy, sadness, sorrow, trouble, tribulation, woe, mourning, affliction, distress, regret.