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augmentative
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective augmentative has 2 senses
- augmentative(s = adj.all) Array - increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree; "`up' is an augmentative word in `hurry up'"
- augmentative(s = adj.all) enhancive - intensifying by augmentation and enhancement; Array Derived forms verb augment1, verb augment2
CIDE DICTIONARY
augmentative, a. [Cf. F. augmentatif.].
Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. [1913 Webster]
augmentative, n.
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]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
augmentative, adj.
1 having the property of increasing.
2 Gram. (of an affix or derived word) reinforcing the idea of the original word.
1 having the property of increasing.
2 Gram. (of an affix or derived word) reinforcing the idea of the original word.
Etymology
F augmentatif -ive or med.L augmentativus (as AUGMENT)
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