aggregative

[ ag-ri-gey-tiv ]
/ ˈæg rɪˌgeɪ tɪv /

adjective

of or relating to an aggregate.
forming or tending to form an aggregate.

Origin of aggregative

First recorded in 1635–45; aggregate + -ive

OTHER WORDS FROM aggregative

ag·gre·ga·tive·ly, adverb sub·ag·gre·ga·tive, adjective

Words nearby aggregative

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Example sentences from the Web for aggregative

  • The Aggregative Principle anew at work in a Society grown obsolete, cracked asunder, dissolving into rubbish and primary atoms?

    The French Revolution |Thomas Carlyle

  • Fancy is aggregative and associative,—Imagination is creative, motive.

    Rab and His Friends and Other Papers |John Brown

  • Are you not, in general, exaggerating the force of the aggregative as against the segregative tendencies in human nature?

    Philosophy and The Social Problem |Will Durant

  • I reckon I might have been too aggregative in my tabulation.

    Roads of Destiny |O. Henry