aggregative
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.12 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
By, toward, or of aggregation (the act of collecting or gathering together).
Example Sentences
- "Aggregative Pills, or Pills that have many Virtues, in Latin, pillulae aggregativae sive polychrestae"
- "The reason why heat is necessary to the oxidation of most metals is, because by diminishing the aggregative force by which the integrant parts of those bodies adhere together, it increases in the same proportion their force of affinity or combination;"
- "[…] the imitative power, voluntary and automatic; the imagination, or shaping and modifying power; the fancy, or the aggregative and associative power; […]"
- "I never thought Yanks had any rudiments of decorum and laudability about them. I reckon I might have been too aggregative in my tabulation."
- "Utilitarianism is essentially an aggregative morality. It requires us to promote the general happiness, and that means doing as much good as possible, not just for particular others but for people in general […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English aggregate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English aggregative From aggregate + -ive.
Inflected Forms
more aggregative (comparative)
most aggregative (superlative)