accumulative

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   increasing through successive additions; cumulative

   The accumulative effect of many small delays pushed the project months behind schedule.

2. 2
   adj

   tending to collect, store, or build up something

   The fund follows an accumulative strategy that reinvests all income.

Formed from accumulate + -ive. Accumulate comes from Latin accumulare, 'to heap up,' built from ad-, 'toward,' + cumulus, 'heap,' so the adjective describes growth by repeated additions.

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