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agglutinative ag·glu·ti·na·tive

Spelling: [uh-gloot-n-ey-tiv, uh-gloot-n- Agglutinative is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 772 anagrams from letters in agglutinative (aaeggiilnttuv).

Definitions for agglutinative

adjective

1. tending or having power to agglutinate or unite:
2. Linguistics. pertaining to or noting a language, as Turkish, characterized by agglutination. Compare inflectional (def 2), isolating.

Origin of agglutinative

First recorded in 1625-35; agglutinate + -ive

Examples for agglutinative

The main differences shown by these varieties are agglutinative differences.

The Sumerian language was of agglutinative type, radically distinct both from the pure Semitic idioms and from Egyptian.

The juxtaposing technique we may call an “agglutinative” one, if we like.

Their absence, however, is readily explained by the persistence of the agglutinative principle, which renders them unnecessary.

Their language was "agglutinative monosyllabic," with mingled Nigritic and Semitic characteristics.

Chinese belongs to the former class of languages, the "monosyllabic," Turkish to the latter, the "agglutinative."

By the theory the monosyllabic is lower than the agglutinative, and inherently less useful.

They spoke an agglutinative language, and resembled the Chinese very much both in physical type and in character.

agglutinative languages do not often possess special adverbial endings.

With regard to syntax, the Basque resembles all agglutinative languages.