agglutinative

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This frugality, its most basic trait, is then tempered by its second most basic trait, its agglutinative nature—the construction of words by the incessant addition of prefixes and suffixes to the roots.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2016

One day, discussing Turkish, he asked a visitor if he knew what an agglutinative language was.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

They are less completely inflected than the Finnish languages and more thoroughly agglutinative in the strict sense.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

It is syllabic agglutinative, that is, the word inflections are made up by adding syllables to the root word that is never lost.

From Heathen Master Filcsik by Mikszáth, Kálmán

Its place in the general series of idioms has at last been well defined—it is an agglutinative and incorporating language, with some tendency to polysynthetism.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth