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Accumulative

adjective

Increasing by successive addition. Synonym: cumulative. "The eventual accumulative effect of these substances"

Marked by acquiring or amassing.

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"Accumulative" Quotes from Famous Books

... appearances as St. Petersburg, and yet the show she makes is that of the whited sepulchre: false construction and rottenness of material, facades of empty parade, and plaster which feigns to be stone, constitute an accumulative dishonesty which has few parallels in the history of architecture. Classic pillars and porticos, which have been thrust in everywhere on slightest pretext, are often built up of brick covered with cement and coloured yellow. Columns, here the common and constant expedient, are mostly mismanaged; ...

— Russia - As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Various

... history is full of petty wars caused by trifles. In Egypt the clans Sa'ad and Haram and in Syria the Kays and Yaman (which remain to the present day) were as pugnacious as Highland Caterans. The tale bears some likeness to the accumulative nursery rhymes in "The House that Jack Built," and "The Old Woman and the Crooked Sixpence;" which find their indirect original in an allegorical ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton

Words linked to "Accumulative" : accumulate, acquisitive, additive