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accumulative

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of accumulative

produced by a series of additions of identical or similar things
  • the accumulative effect of all her worries was to seriously undermine her health
Synonyms of accumulative

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

gradual, step-by-step, stepwise

increscent, progressive

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

decremental, decrescent, degressive, regressive

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