Vocabulary
Cumulative
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
increasing or increased in quantity, degree, or force by successive additions.
Urdu meaning
مجموعی، مسلسل بڑھنے والے، انبار کا باعث
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Despite enforcement challenges, the approach perhaps creates cumulative improvements in compliance and institutional capacity.
- The cumulative impact, if unchecked, would be the annihilation of adversaries with no remorse.
- The declining capacity of the state machinery is the cumulative result of several factors.
- According to the latest finance ministry`s report, the Utility Stores Corporation had posted a loss of Rs4.1bn during the first six months of the last fiscal year, with cumulative losses rising to Rs15.5bn.
- This is the cumulative media effect, Talat reminded me.
Synonyms
increasing, accumulative, accumulating, growing, progressive, accruing, snowballing
Curator example
“the cumulative effect of two years of drought”
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