adds

verbsimple arithmetical process of increase; accumulation
verbadjoin, increase; make further comment

Synonyms for adds

verb simple arithmetical process of increase; accumulation

Antonyms for adds

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "to join or unite (something to something else)," from Latin addere "add to, join, attach, place upon," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + -dere comb. form meaning "to put, place," from dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Meaning "to do sums, do addition" also is from late 14c. Related: Added; adding. To add up "make sense" is from 1942.

Example Sentences for adds

Every year he adds some fresh decoration, some new and exceptional scene.

It must be confessed (he adds drily) that in England this is a lifelong disqualification.

This may have increased the resistance, but it adds to the steadiness.

So that he adds, upon the empty city, 'Burn it and melt its brass'.

He adds: “When I had cut the road, and finished the fort,” etc.

And Allah willing,” he adds, “you will recover and be happy again.

And the danger for me (it is a danger, I admit) only adds to the—fun.

Any one who adds a general principle to knowledge has been a benefactor to the world.

And yet, as he adds, the true legislator is still required: he must co-operate with circumstances.

He adds that he has exercised a similar power over the patients of his brother Herodicus.