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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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