Augmentive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Augmentive is an adjective meaning Serving to augment, enhance, or increase; augmentative.
Meaning
Serving to augment, enhance, or increase; augmentative.
More Meanings
- Supplementary; additional.
- (linguistics) Changing the meaning to one that is a larger, more complete, or more elaborate version of the original sense.
- (linguistics) An augmentive affix; augmentative.
- Something that augments.
Example Sentences
As an opposite to dys, let en (ry) as an augmentive particle, as we have it in en-harmonia, en-telechia, and en-ergetic.
I have the requisite authority to provide augmentive information to you concerning the history and tragic circumstance of the loss.
Observe, that as ry is augmentive, it is not usual to give it a plural form, (for the plural termination is in a certain sense augmentive,)
The data leave little doubt that the augmentive power of these blood samples was much greater from the formed elements than from the plasma.
Word Forms
- augmentives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include augmentative, augmentary, amplificatory, augmented, enhancive, ascensive.
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