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What is the adjective for accretion?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs accrete and accresce which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

accrete
  1. Characterized by accretion; made up
  2. (botany) Grown together
accretive
  1. Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. accumulative, incremental, conglomerative, additive, cumulative, increasing, growing, progressive, mounting, amassing, gradual, rising, piling up, acquisitive, intensifying, advancing, aggregate, collective, snowballing, amassed, accruing, accumulating, additory, increscent, heightening, magnifying, chain, augmenting, swelling, multiplying, heaped, summative, knock-on, continuous, developing, accelerating, ongoing, continual, continuing, escalating, thriving, flourishing, emergent, upward, piecemeal, step by step, step-by-step … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Architectural peculiarities and appointments are ever accretive properties with the novelist of imagination and latitude.”
      “Culture is often accretive, in that it builds on the past, but equally it can lose technologies, sciences and ideas.”
      “Hip hop and rap, spreading their accretive gospel of preening commercialism and misogynistic narcissism, were still in ascendancy.”
accretionary
  1. Of, pertaining to, or in the form of an accretion
  2. Examples:
      3. “The complexes were stacked during the Devonian in an accretionary wedge to the west or NW of the Rheic oceanic basin.”
      “In summary, we interpret Unit II as a fragment of a volcanic seamount incorporated into an Early Palaeozoic accretionary prism.”
      “A seamount capped by limestone was incorporated into the accretionary prism north of the arc in Cambrian-Early Ordovician time.”
accretional
  1. Of, pertaining to, or formed by accretion
accreted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of accrete
  2. Synonyms:
      3. amassed, accumulated, gathered, collected, massed, concentrated, conglomerated, piled up, stacked up, built up, aggregated, assembled, piled, heaped, corralled, stockpiled, accrued, cumulated, amounded, constellated, grouped, agglomerated, lumped, bulked up, clustered, compiled, congregated, coalesced, snowballed, heaped up, heaped together, rounded up, converged, consolidated, forgathered, centered, congested, foregathered, united, centred, met, convened, unified, arrayed, puddled, centralized, bunched, compacted, localized, integrated … more
accreting
  1. present participle of accrete
  2. Synonyms:
      3. amassing, accumulating, gathering, collecting, massing, concentrating, conglomerating, piling up, stacking up, building up, aggregating, assembling, stockpiling, heaping, piling, corralling, accruing, bulking up, cumulating, amounding, grouping, constellating, agglomerating, lumping, heaping up, rounding up, clustering, compiling, congregating, coalescing, snowballing, drawing together, heaping together, arraying, puddling, joining together, gathering together, lumping together, grouping together, converging, consolidating, centreing, centering, meeting, uniting, foregathering, convening, forgathering, congesting, unifying … more
accresced
  1. simple past tense and past participle of accresce
accrescing
  1. present participle of accresce
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