agglutinative

[ uh-gloot-n-ey-tiv, uh-gloot-n-uh- ]
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adjective
  1. tending or having power to agglutinate or unite: an agglutinative substance.

  2. Linguistics. pertaining to or noting a language, as Turkish, characterized by agglutination. : Compare inflectional (def. 2), isolating.

Origin of agglutinative

1
First recorded in 1625–35; agglutinate + -ive

Other words from agglutinative

  • an·ti·ag·glu·ti·na·tive, adjective
  • non·ag·glu·ti·na·tive, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for agglutinative

agglutinative

/ (əˈɡluːtɪnətɪv) /


adjective
  1. tending to join or capable of joining

  2. Also: agglomerative linguistics denoting languages, such as Hungarian, whose morphology is characterized by agglutination: Compare analytic (def. 3), synthetic (def. 3), polysynthetic

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