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Accumulative

//əˈkjum.jəˌleɪ.tɪv// adj

Definitions

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

    "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 […]"

  2. 2
    Having a propensity to amass; acquisitive.
Adjective
  1. 1
    marked by acquiring or amassing wordnet
  2. 2
    increasing by successive addition wordnet

Etymology

From accumulate + -ive.

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