AGGLUTINATIVE

AGGLU'TINATIVE, adjective That tends to unite, or has power to cause adhesion.

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agglutinative. Agglutinative, a. having the quality of glue

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Ag‐glu″ti‐na‐tive (�), a. [[Cf. F. agglutinatif.]] 1. 1. Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
2. 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 Müller.