a. | 1. | |
1. | Producing accusations; accusatory. | |
2. | (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English. | |
n. | 1. | (Gram.) The accusative case. |
Noun | 1. | accusative - the category of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb Synonyms: accusative case, objective case |
Adj. | 1. | accusative - containing or expressing accusation; "an accusitive forefinger"; "black accusatory looks"; "accusive shoes and telltale trousers"- O.Henry; "his accusing glare" |
2. | accusative - serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings" Synonyms: objective |