agglutinative
tending or having power to agglutinate or unite: an agglutinative substance.
Linguistics. pertaining to or noting a language, as Turkish, characterized by agglutination. : Compare inflectional (def. 2), isolating.
Origin of agglutinative
1Other words from agglutinative
- an·ti·ag·glu·ti·na·tive, adjective
- non·ag·glu·ti·na·tive, adjective
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How to use agglutinative in a sentence
Such languages could be termed “agglutinative-isolating,” “fusional-isolating” and “symbolic-isolating.”
Language | Edward Sapiragglutinative languages do not often possess special adverbial endings.
Sumerian Hymns | Frederick Augustus Vanderburghagglutinative action is evidence of the presence in a serum of a somewhat similar set of substances, known as “agglutinins.”
In the agglutinative languages, or at any rate in some of them, some of the post-fixed elements have still an independent value.
But the distinction between them and the so-called agglutinative languages is one of degree rather than of kind.
British Dictionary definitions for agglutinative
/ (əˈɡluːtɪnətɪv) /
tending to join or capable of joining
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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