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agglutinative

Definition of agglutinative

adjective

Linguistics
  • (of a language, e.g. Hungarian, Turkish, Korean, and Swahili) tending to express concepts in complex words consisting of many elements, rather than by inflection or by using isolated elements. Contrasted with analytic and synthetic.

agglutinative in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of agglutinative in the US English dictionary