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# accumulative

adjective

«accumulative» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Growing bigger by adding one thing after another, so that each part builds on the last. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accumulative/#m1)

### In the lessons

in the lessons, a kind of tale, such as The Old Woman and her Pig, where each new part adds to the ones before

### Examples

- The song is accumulative: each verse adds one more animal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accumulative/#x1)
- An accumulative tale grows longer each time it is told. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accumulative/#x2)
- The pile of items became larger in an accumulative way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accumulative/#x3)

### Note

each new step adds to the running total, so the count builds up from one step to the next

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «accumulative» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accumulative/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«accumulative» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/accumulative.html) on Mova free.