adjective
- relating to or characterized by agglutination, especially the formation of words by combining meaningful elements
- tending to stick together or cause adhesion
Usage: linguistics
Usage: technical
Examples
- Turkish is an agglutinative language that builds complex words by adding suffixes.
- Finnish demonstrates agglutinative characteristics in its word formation.
- The agglutinative nature of the language makes it possible to express complex ideas in single words.
- Hungarian is known for its agglutinative grammar structure.
- The agglutinative properties of the substance made it useful as a binding agent.
- Linguists study agglutinative languages to understand morphological processes.