Augmentative

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Augmentative \Aug*ment"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. augmentatif.]
     Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing
     augmentation. -- {Aug*ment"a*tive*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Augmentative \Aug*ment"a*tive\, n. (Gram.)
     A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the
     properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard,
     one very dull. Opposed to {diminutive}. --Gibbs.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  augmentative
       adj 1: increasing or having the power to increase especially in
              size or amount or degree; "`up' is an augmentative
              word in `hurry up'"
       2: intensifying by augmentation and enhancement [syn: {enhancive}]