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# accumulative

«accumulative» in Mova's school dictionary: **Growing bigger by adding one thing after another, so that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «accumulative» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accumulative/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.