ablative case

1. 1.

   the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb

   Synonymsablative

   Broaderoblique

Questions about ablative case

What does ablative case mean?

ablative case means "the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb".

What is another word for ablative case?

Close synonyms include ablative. 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 ablative case a common word?

ablative case is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.