gravitas

What does gravitas mean?

gravitas means "formality in bearing and appearance".

How many syllables are in gravitas?

gravitas has 3 syllables: grav-i-tas. The stress falls on "grav". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹævətəs/.

What is another word for gravitas?

Close synonyms include dignity, lordliness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gravitas a common word?

gravitas is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gravitas come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.