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Agglutinative   Listen
adjective
Agglutinative  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
Synonyms: polysynthetic, holophrastic.
2.
(Philol.) Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound. "In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds." "Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages." "Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... properly, Karl, King of the Franks, consecrated Roman Emperor in St. Peter's on Christmas Day, A.D. 800, and known to posterity as the Great (chiefly by his agglutinative Gallicised denomination of Charlemagne), was a man great in all ways, physically and mentally. Within a couple of centuries after his death Charlemagne became the centre of innumerable legends; and the myth-making process does ...
— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley



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