accelerative

1. 1.

   tending to increase velocity

   Synonymsacceleratory

   Similarincreasing

Questions about accelerative

What does accelerative mean?

accelerative means "tending to increase velocity".

How many syllables are in accelerative?

accelerative has 5 syllables: ac-ce-le-ra-tive. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for accelerative?

Close synonyms include acceleratory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accelerative a common word?

accelerative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.