累積|るいせきruiseki[0]heiban (flat)

Common
Definitions
  1. noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbaccumulation
    アメリカ人あめりかじんが貿易ぼうえき赤字あかじを累積るいせきしたのは、限度げんどを超こえたぜいたくをしたからですよ。↗
    Americans accumulated their trade deficits by living far beyond their means.
  2. prenominal modifiercumulative; accumulated
Conjugation
Dictionary form累積する(るいせきする)
Polite (masu)累積します(るいせきします)
Negative (nai)累積しない(るいせきしない)
polite (masen)累積しません(るいせきしません)
classical zu / nu累積せず・累積せぬ(るいせきせず・るいせきせぬ)
Past (ta)累積した(るいせきした)
polite (mashita)累積しました(るいせきしました)
Past negative (nakatta)累積しなかった(るいせきしなかった)
polite (masen deshita)累積しませんでした(るいせきしませんでした)
Te form累積して(るいせきして)
Potential累積できる(るいせきできる)
Passive累積される(るいせきされる)
Causative累積させる(るいせきさせる)
Causative passive累積させられる(るいせきさせられる)
Conditional (ba)累積すれば(るいせきすれば)
tara累積したら(るいせきしたら)
Volitional累積しよう(るいせきしよう)
polite (mashou)累積しましょう(るいせきしましょう)
Imperative累積しろ(るいせきしろ)

Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym集積しゅうせきWrittenWritten style: things gathered and piled up together, as in 「産業集積」. 「累積」 stresses adding up time after time, as with a growing deficit.
  • Synonym蓄積ちくせきNeutralGradual storing up, as in 「疲労の蓄積」 or 「知識の蓄積」; 「累積」 leans toward quantities added up one after another.
  • Synonym堆積たいせきNeutralMud, sand and the like piling up high, or sediment settling; 「累積」 is mostly for figures and burdens.
  • Synonym累加るいかWrittenWritten style: adding the same quantity successively. 「累積」 covers the whole process or result of continuous accumulation.
  • Related累増るいぞうWrittenWritten style: continuous, successive increases. 「累積」 leans toward the cumulative total rather than the rise itself.
  • Related増加ぞうかNeutralThe broadest word for a quantity increasing; 「累積」 stresses the result of layering up additions over time.
  • Related増大ぞうだいWrittenWritten style: growing larger in scale or size. 「累積」 leans toward piling up a cumulative total.
  • Antonym減少げんしょうNeutralA quantity going down — the direct opposite of 「累積」, which adds up time after time.
  • Antonym消費しょうひNeutralUsing something up or spending it — the opposite of 「累積」, which stores things up.

Use 「累積」 for things added up time after time — deficits, burdens, scores, as in 「累積赤字」. For knowledge or fatigue built up, use 「蓄積」; for industrial clustering, 「集積」; for mud and sand piling up, 「堆積」. 「増加」 is the general word for a rise; 「減少」 is the opposite.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

Japanese definitions
  1. 積み重つみかさなること。積み重つみかさねること。
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