| a. | 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. |
| Adj. | 1. | agglutinative - forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning Synonyms: polysynthetic |
| 2. | agglutinative - united as if by glue Synonyms: agglutinate |