01 a. Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
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Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
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Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound.(Philol.)“In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds.” — R. Morris.“Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages.” — R. Morris.“Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots.” — Max Müller.
Syn.
polysynthetic, holophrastic.