accumulative
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.
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Translations edit
serving to collect or amass
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