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Definition of Augmentative
1. Adjective. Increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree. "`up' is an augmentative word in `hurry up'"
Similar to: Increasing
2. Adjective. Intensifying by augmentation and enhancement.
Definition of Augmentative
1. a. Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation.
2. 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.
Definition of Augmentative
1. [n -S]