accumulative

1. 1.

   increasing by successive addition

   “the benefits are cumulative”

   “the eventual accumulative effect of these substances”

   Synonymscumulative

   Similaradditive
2. 2.

   marked by acquiring or amassing

   “we live in an accumulative society”

   Similaracquisitive

Questions about accumulative

What does accumulative mean?

accumulative means "increasing by successive addition". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accumulative?

accumulative has 5 syllables: ac-cu-mu-la-tive. The stress falls on "cu". In IPA it is /əˈkjumjəˌleɪtɪv/.

What is another word for accumulative?

Close synonyms include cumulative. 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 accumulative a common word?

accumulative 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.

What rhymes with accumulative?

3 words rhyme with accumulative. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.