Word Type

Noun

Verb

Adjective

Adjective

Proper Noun

The word "grave" can be used as noun, verb, adjective, adjective and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

cradle serious

Typical Location

funeral

Coordinate Terms

acute burial chamber sepulchre vault

Derived Terms

begrave beyond the grave cold in one's grave common grave cradle to grave cradle-to-grave dance on someone's grave dig one's grave with a fork dig one's grave with a fork and spoon dig one's own grave follow to the grave grave as a judge grave candle grave dancer grave dancing grave digger grave good grave goods grave lantern grave marker grave robber grave wax grave-dancy grave-good grave-goods grave-rob grave-robbing gravebound graveclothes gravedance gravedancer gravedigger gravedigging gravedom graveful gravekeeper graveless gravelike gravemound graveness graverobber graverobbing graveside gravesite gravesome gravestead gravestone graveward gravewards graveyard have one foot in the grave ingrave mass grave passage grave pauper's grave quiet as a grave roll in one's grave roll over in one's grave silent as a grave silent as the grave spin in one's grave take someone to the grave take something to one's grave take something to the grave take to the grave the cradle to the grave turn in one's grave turn over in one's grave ungrave ungravely war grave watery grave white man's grave

Etymologically Related To

groove

Context

historical nautical

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

accent accent mark carve chip at death demise dying place spot topographic point

Type Of (IsA)

death grave site outdoor location topographic point

Related Terms

begrave burgrave engrave engraven graving dock groove landgrave margrave palsgrave waldgrave

Related Terms

accent also also serious area authoritative bed begrave bodies bodies in body burgrave burial burial hole burial pit burial place burial plot burial site burials buried buried dead bury bury body bury dead bury in bury place burying burying bodies burying dead burying people burying place casket casket hole casket land caskets cemeteries cemetery cemetery hole church churchyard coffin coffin hole coffin locale coffins corpse corpse home corpses count covering cross crypt dark dead dead bodies dead body dead buried dead men dead people dead person dead place death death bed death hole death home death pit death place death plot death stone deep deep hole deep rectangle destruction dig dignified dirt earth engrave entombment epitaph epithet excavation feet final final place final rest final resting for coffins for dead for death formidable funerals groove ground ground hole headstone headstones holds holds coffin hole hole ground home important in cemetery in ground influential insert insert coffin interment land landgrave locale low many others margrave marker marking marking dead men monument mound office others palsgrave people person pit pitch place plot plots prefect rectangle rest resting resting place rip scary sepulcher serious seriousness site situation six six feet somber sombre stone stone cross stone marker storing storing dead tomb tomb covering tomb stone tombstone tombstones tone underground very very serious waldgrave where where buried womb yards you buried

Similar Terms

critical engrave etch grievous important of import sculpt sculpture serious

Synonym Network

engrave grave accent grievous life threatening sculpt sedate serious solemn weightsome

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.