nominative

1. 1.

   the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb

   Synonymsnominative casesubject case

   Antonymsoblique

   Broadercase

Other forms of nominative

plural

nominatives·

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 nominative

What does nominative mean?

nominative means "serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nominative?

nominative has 4 syllables: no-mi-na-tive. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for nominative?

Close synonyms include nominal, nominated, nominative case, subject 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.

What is the opposite of nominative?

The recorded antonyms are oblique.

Is nominative a common word?

nominative 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.