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Definition of Accumulative

1. Adjective. Increasing by successive addition. "The eventual accumulative effect of these substances"

2. Adjective. Marked by acquiring or amassing. "We live in an accumulative society"

Definition of Accumulative

1. a. Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.

Definition of Accumulative

1. Adjective. Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. ¹

2. Adjective. Having a propensity to amass; acquisitive. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Accumulative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Accumulative

accumulable accumulate accumulated accumulated depreciation accumulates accumulating accumulating shear accumulatio accumulation accumulation analysis

accumulation disease accumulation point accumulation points accumulations accumulatios accumulative (current term) accumulatively accumulativeness accumulator accumulator register

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Literary usage of Accumulative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Elements of Rhetoric by James De Mille (1878)
"This may be called accumulative invention. ... accumulative INVENTION. By accumulative invention is meant the finding of subject- matter by study, research, ..."

2. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"... OF GRAFTING ON THE VARIABILITY OF SEEDLING-TREES—DOMESTIC PRODUCTIONS BECOME HABITUATED TO CHANGED CONDITIONS—ON THE accumulative ACTION OF CHANGED ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Legacies by William Scott Preston (1824)
"Of accumulative Legacies. GENERALLY where a legacy to the same, or to a less, ... they are to be considered accumulative (b); especially if the legacies are ..."

4. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"SUGGESTIONS for .a GOVERNMENT LOAN by MEANS of a NEW FORM of SECURITY to be termed " accumulative BONDS." By SIR HENRY BARRON, BART., Secretary of Legation. ..."

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