accumulative
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
accumulate + -ive
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
accumulative (comparative more accumulative, superlative most accumulative)
- Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass
- Synonyms: cumulative, additional
- 1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 88, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
- At the back of it all was a nebulous, accumulative foreboding; a gathering together in the cumulus sky; a mounting excitement in the heart of secrecy […]
- Having a propensity to amass; acquisitive.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
serving to collect or amass
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