agglutinative

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/əˈgluːtɪnətɪv/

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(ə glo̅o̅t′n ā′tiv, ə glo̅o̅t′n ə-)



WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
ag•glu•ti•na•tive  (ə glo̅o̅t′n ā′tiv, ə glo̅o̅t′n ə-),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. tending or having power to agglutinate or unite:an agglutinative substance.
  2. Linguisticspertaining to or noting a language, as Turkish, characterized by agglutination. Cf. inflectional (def. 2), isolating. 
  • agglutinate + -ive 1625–35

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
agglutinative / əˈɡluːtɪnətɪv/
  1. denoting languages, such as Hungarian, whose morphology is characterized by agglutination
    Compare analytic3, synthetic3
'agglutinative' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
agglutinate - inflectional - isolating

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