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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Agglutinative \Ag*glu"ti*na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. agglutinatif.]
1. Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having
power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
2. (Philol.) Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a
language or a compound.
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
M["u]ller.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
agglutinative
adj 1: forming derivative or compound words by putting together
constituents each of which expresses a single definite
meaning [syn: {combining(a)}, {polysynthetic}]
2: united as if by glue [syn: {agglutinate}]
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