culminative

[ kuhl-muh-ney-tiv ]
/ ˈkʌl məˌneɪ tɪv /

adjective Linguistics.

(of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.

Origin of culminative

culminate + -ive

Words nearby culminative

culmicolous, culmiferous, culminant, culminate, culmination, culminative, culo, culottes, culpa, culpability, culpable

Example sentences from the Web for culminative

  • I have gathered a series of facts illustrative and demonstrative, by their culminative evidence.

    Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science |Hudson Tuttle

  • Thus is reached the culminative point in the course of the provision for the education of the deaf in America.

    The Deaf |Harry Best

  • The culminative influences of hundreds of generations of civilization spoke in him here.

    Jan |A. J. Dawson

  • It was the consensus of opinion that it would be madness to attempt arrest during the culminative ceremonies.

    A Republic Without a President and Other Stories |Herbert Ward