augmentative Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree
    • `up' is an augmentative word in `hurry up'
  2. adjective satellite intensifying by augmentation and enhancement
    enhancive.

WordNet

Aug*ment"a*tive adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. augmentatif.
Definitions
  1. Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. -- Aug*ment"a*tive*ly, adv.
Aug*ment"a*tive noun
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913