grave
Causing great concern
Grave covers both noun and adjective territory with quite different meanings.
The noun grave is a burial site, typically a hole dug in the earth to receive a corpse, or the mound or marker above it.
She visits her father's grave every year.
The adjective grave means serious or solemn, suggesting weighty concern: The doctor's expression was grave.
A grave situation or grave danger is one requiring urgent attention.
As a verb, grave is an archaic term meaning to carve or engrave.
Place for interring remains
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
- coffinBurial container for remains
- funeralService honoring the dead
- intermentPutting a body underground
crypt · mausoleum · epitaph · plot · hearse · pallbearer · eulogy · mortuary
Expressing disapproval or importance
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- severeExtremely harsh or strict
- perilousFraught with danger
- urgentNeeding immediate attention
serious · alarming · acute · grievous · crucial · momentous · consequential · weighty
Act of unearthing
- trenchLong narrow excavation
- cairnMemorial stone pile
- moundHeaped earth formation
- earthworkConstructed soil structure
remains · artifacts · skeleton · burial mound · barrow · tumulus · chamber · shaft
Text permanently marked
- epitaphText honoring the deceased
- etchIncise a surface
- chiselEdged carving implement
- stonecutterOne who shapes rock
mason · marble · granite · limestone · monument · headstone · lettering · memorial
Fearful anticipation of harm
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- gloomyDark and dispiriting
- darkAbsence of light
dread · macabre · eerie · haunting · chilling · ghastly · portentous · baleful
cemetery
Place for interring remains
interment · crypt · mausoleum · epitaph · plot · hearse · pallbearer · eulogy · mortuary · obituary
critical
Expressing disapproval or importance
urgent · serious · alarming · acute · grievous · crucial · momentous · consequential · weighty · pressing
excavation
Act of unearthing
earthwork · remains · artifacts · skeleton · burial mound · barrow · tumulus · chamber · shaft · pit
inscription
Text permanently marked
stonecutter · mason · marble · granite · limestone · monument · headstone · lettering · memorial · stonework
foreboding
Fearful anticipation of harm
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- gloomyDark and dispiriting
dark · dread · macabre · eerie · haunting · chilling · ghastly · portentous · baleful · disquieting
adagio
Slow musical tempo
solemn · tempo · slow · measured · stately · sustained · deliberate · larghetto
solemn
Serious and dignified
weighty · dignified · stately · subdued · sedate · composed · unsmiling · stern · pensive · thoughtful
- cemeteriescemetery, burial, headstones, headstone, burial plots
- funeral customsburial, funeral, cremation, funeral procession, casket
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- burial sitestomb, tombs, crypt, crypts, burial mound
- cemeteryheadstone, headstones, tombstone, tombs, epitaphs
gravecheerful
Pleasantly bright in mood
lighthearted · jovial · merry · jocular · gay
gravetrivial
Lacking significance or weight
unimportant · insignificant · minor · inconsequential · slight
- cradle to graveEntire span of existence
- graven imagesCarved objects of worship
- graveyard shiftLate-night work period
- one foot in the graveNear death's door
- dig one's own graveCause one's own undoing
- mass graveShared burial for many
graveyard, aggravate, engrave, engraving, aggravation, engraved, gravelly, graves, aggravating