accumulative
IPA: ʌkjˈumjʌɫeɪtɪv
adjective
- Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass
- Having a propensity to amass; acquisitive.
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Examples of "accumulative" in Sentences
- It belongs to the type of story known as the "accumulative," of which "The House That Jack Built" is the purest model.
- There is a well-marked distinction between the excitable and what I will call the accumulative temperament in patients.
- But by and large, the industry doesn't have the kind of accumulative knowledge of making film after film after film after film.
- Gladwell says the best succeed because of hard work, innate talent and a confluence of circumstances that some call accumulative advantage, and some call luck.
- He's watchful, accumulative, with a good range of well-executed shots, but there's nothing particularly eye-catching about him; he looks pretty good, not extraordinary.
- The genius of the language has been described as accumulative: it "tends rather to add syllables or letters, making farther distinctions in objects already before the mind, than to introduce new words."
- Even when a game doesn't have that kind of accumulative structure, like CoH, some players still follow the same imperatives until they've been around long enough to realize that it doesn't matter so much.
- We are not goddesses, divas or supermoms any more than we're bitches, shrews, sluts or nursemaids, and the damage of getting it wrong has been accumulative, making the picture of a woman's role seem quite grim and hopeless when it's really far from it.
- They have invented a kind of accumulative or constructive evidence, by which many actions either totally innocent in themselves, or criminal in a much inferior degree, shall, when united, amount to treason, and subject the person to the highest penalties inflicted by the law.