1 nine

2 9

1 grave

2 serious

3 severe

4 critical

1 to repeat

2 repetition

3 again

4 re-

5 classifier: layer

1 again

2 once more

3 re-

1 important

2 significant

3 major

1 one word worth nine sacred tripods (idiom); words of enormous weight

1 each word carries weight

2 a promise must be kept (idiom)

1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)

2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation

3 in dire straits

1 lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things

2 naive

3 doesn't know who's who

4 no sense of priorities

1 to reach for the stars (idiom)