Accretive

//əˈkɹi.tɪv// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. not-comparable

    "[…] Vegetables spring up from their Mother Earth; and we can no more discern their accretive Motion, then we can their most hidden cause."

Adjective
  1. 1
    growing by accretion wordnet

Synonyms

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increasing

Example

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"[…] Vegetables spring up from their Mother Earth; and we can no more discern their accretive Motion, then we can their most hidden cause."

Etymology

From accrete + -ive.

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