gravitate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
move toward
The conversation gravitated towards politics
Types & categories
- incline hypernym
Related & opposite
- gravitation derivation
Sense 2 verb
be attracted to
Boys gravitate towards girls at that age
Types & categories
- be hypernym
Related & opposite
- gravitation derivation
Sense 3 verb
move due to the pull of gravitation
The stars gravitate towards each other
Types & categories
- move hypernym
Related & opposite
- gravitation derivation
- gravity derivation
- gravitational derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | gravitation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | incline |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | gravitation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | gravitation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | gravity |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | gravitational |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |