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accretive

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of accretive

produced by a series of additions of identical or similar things

  • the story of his encounter with the bear was awash with accretive exaggeration, the bear becoming larger with each retelling of the tale
Synonyms of accretive

accumulative, additive, conglomerative, cumulative, incremental
Words Related to accretive

gradual, step-by-step, stepwise

increscent, progressive

accruable, accrued, aggregated, amassed, built-up, compiled, conglomerated
Near Antonyms of accretive

decremental, decrescent, degressive, regressive

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