Antonyms for cumulative
ˈkyu myə lə tɪv, -ˌleɪ tɪvcu·mu·la·tive

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1. accumulative, cumulativeadjective

   increasing by successive addition

   "the benefits are cumulative"; "the eventual accumulative effect of these substances"

   Antonyms:
   subtractive

   Synonyms:
   accumulative

How to use cumulative in a sentence?

1. Sam Khater:

   The market continues to absorb the cumulative impact of the large price and rate increases that led to a plunge in affordability, as a result, over the rest of the year purchase demand likely will continue to drag, supply will modestly increase, and home price growth will decelerate.

2. Mike Ingram:

   For me it's a cumulative effect. We had Paris, and then Brussels, then France again and then a coup... It seems as though holidaymakers were delaying and hoping to book at the last minute, so a stock like Thomas Cook will be hit, given the depreciation of sterling, given the security concerns and given that people might opt for.

3. Tom Buschatzke:

   They haven’t shared with us any cumulative ballpark, i believe it’s imperative we know the ballpark at least, and eventually the specific number, because it will be less of a gap to close on the necessary reductions.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

5. Tom Vilsack:

   I think you have to take you back 20, 30 years when we know for a fact that socially disadvantaged producers were discriminated against by the United States Department of Agriculture. We know this. We have reimbursed people in the past for those acts of discrimination, but we've never absolutely dealt with the cumulative effect.

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