accusative

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ac=cu=sa=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

accusative, a. [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See Accuse.].

•  Producing accusations; accusatory.  Sir E. Dering.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

accusative, n. 

 The accusative case.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

accusative, n. & adj. Gram.
--n. the case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, expressing the object of an action or the goal of motion.
--adj. of or in this case.

Derivative

accusatival adj. accusatively adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF accusatif -ive or L (casus) accusativus, transl. Gk (ptosis) aitiatike

ROGET THESAURUS

accusative

Accusation

N accusation, charge, imputation, slur, inculpation, exprobration, delation, crimination, incrimination, accrimination, recrimination, tu quoque argument, invective, denunciation, denouncement, libel, challenge, citation, arraignment, impeachment, appeachment, indictment, bill of indictment, true bill, lawsuit, condemnation, gravamen of a charge, head and front of one's offending, argumentum ad hominem, scandal, scandalum magnatum, accuser, prosecutor, plaintiff, relator, informer, appellant, accused, defendant, prisoner, perpetrator, panel, respondent, litigant, accusing, accusatory, accusative, imputative, denunciatory, recriminatory, criminatory, accused, suspected, under suspicion, under a cloud, under surveillance, in custody, in detention, in the lockup, in the watch house, in the house of detention, accusable, imputable, indefensible, inexcusable, unpardonable, unjustifiable, vicious, Int, look at home, tu quoque, the breath of accusation kills an innocent name, thou can'st not say I did it.