accumulative
[ uh-kyoo-myuh-ley-tiv, -luh-tiv ]
/ əˈkyu myəˌleɪ tɪv, -lə tɪv /
adjective
tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
tending to accumulate wealth; acquisitive.
Origin of accumulative
First recorded in 1645–55;
accumulate +
-ive
OTHER WORDS FROM accumulative
Words nearby accumulative
accum.,
accumbent,
accumulate,
accumulation,
accumulation point,
accumulative,
accumulator,
accuracy,
accurate,
accurize,
accursed
Example sentences from the Web for accumulatively
It rolls up continually, accumulatively; and another fifty years will show more advance than the past five hundred.
The home |Charlotte Perkins Gilman