accusative

1. 1.

   containing or expressing accusation

   “an accusative forefinger”

   “black accusatory looks”

   “accusive shoes and telltale trousers”

   “his accusing glare”

   Synonymsaccusatoryaccusingaccusive

   Similarinculpatory
2. 2.

   serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes

   “objective case”

   “accusative endings”

   Synonymsobjective

   grammar

1. 1.

   the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb

   Synonymsaccusative caseobjective case

   Broaderoblique

Other forms of accusative

plural

accusatives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about accusative

What does accusative mean?

accusative means "containing or expressing accusation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accusative?

accusative has 4 syllables: ac-cu-sa-tive. The stress falls on "cu". In IPA it is /əˈkjuzətɪv/.

What is another word for accusative?

Close synonyms include accusatory, accusing, accusive, objective, accusative case. 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 accusative a common word?

accusative 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.