Associations to the word «Accumulative»

Wiktionary

ACCUMULATIVE, adjective. Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.
ACCUMULATIVE, adjective. Having a propensity to amass; acquisitive.

Dictionary definition

ACCUMULATIVE, adjective. Increasing by successive addition; "the benefits are cumulative"; "the eventual accumulative effect of these substances".
ACCUMULATIVE, adjective. Marked by acquiring or amassing; "we live in an accumulative society".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats