accusative

accusative has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• a.. Producing accusations; accusatory.
• a.. 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.. The accusative case.
• n.. the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb
• a.. containing or expressing accusation; "an accusitive forefinger"; "black accusatory looks"; "accusive shoes and telltale trousers"- O.Henry; "his accusing glare"
• a.. serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings"