augmentative
Meaning of augmentative
adjective
(of an affix or derived word) reinforcing the idea of the original word, especially by meaning ‘a large one of its kind’, as with the Italian suffix -one in borrone ‘ravine’, compared with borro ‘ditch’.
late Middle English (in the sense ‘having a tendency to increase’): from Old French augmentatif, -ive or medieval Latin augmentativus, from the verb augmentare (see augment).
Information about augmentative
- It is an adjective.
- Languages in which augmentative is used:
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Hyphenation of augmentative
aug-men-ta-tive
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- augmentative is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
augmentative synonyms
Meaning enhancive:
Translation of augmentative
- Spanish: aumentativo
- Italian: accrescitivo
- French: augmentatif
- Portuguese: aumentativo
Words that rhyme with augmentative
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