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Agglutinative   Listen
Agglutinative

adjective
1.
Forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning.  Synonym: polysynthetic.
2.
United as if by glue.  Synonym: agglutinate.





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"Agglutinative" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Agglutinative" :   adhesive, synthetic, polysynthetic, agglutinate


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