Crossword clues for accretive
accretive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
accretive \ac*cre"tive\, a.
Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.
--Glanvill.
increasing \increasing\ adj.
becoming greater or larger; as, increasing prices. [Narrower terms: accretionary ; {augmenting, augmentative, building ; {expanding ; {flared, flaring ; {growing ; {incorporative ; {lengthening ; {maximizing ; {multiplicative ; {profit-maximizing ; {raising ; {accretive ; {rising ] {decreasing
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same as growing, 1. [prenominal]
Syn: growing(prenominal), incremental.
(Music) increasing in some musical quality. Opposite of decreasing. [Narrower terms: {accelerando ; {crescendo ]
Wiktionary
a. Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth
WordNet
adj. growing by accretion
Usage examples of "accretive".
Four of them here, crowded around Valentine Michael-at a meeting which certainly should be all male- But Valentine Michael had offered him all these people-including these ubiquitous female creatures-offered them proudly and eagerly as his water brothers, thereby laying on Mahmoud a family obligation closer and more binding than that owed to the sons of one's father's brother-since Mahmoud understood the Martian term for such accretive relationships from direct observation of what it meant to Martians and did not need to translate it clumsily and inadequately as "catenative assemblage," nor even as "things equal to the same thing are equal to each other.
Four of them here, crowded around Valentine Michael - at a meeting which certainly should be all male - But Valentine Michael had offered him all these people-including these ubiquitous female creatures - offered them proudly and eagerly as his water brothers, thereby laying on Mahmoud a family obligation closer and more binding than that owed to the sons of one’s father’s brother - since Mahmoud understood the Martian term for such accretive relationships from direct observation of what it meant to Martians and did not need to translate it clumsily and inadequately as “catenative assemblage,” nor even as “things equal to the same thing are equal to each other.
One hundred forty thousand families out of the plan, and all of it accretive to the bottom line!
Though clumsy, the tube could generate considerable forward velocity, for the motive power of the Bands was accretive.