augmentative

1. 1.

   increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree

   “`up' is an augmentative word in `hurry up'”

   Similarincreasing
2. 2.

   intensifying by augmentation and enhancement

   Synonymsenhancive

   Similarintensifying

Questions about augmentative

What does augmentative mean?

augmentative means "increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in augmentative?

augmentative has 4 syllables: aug-men-ta-tive. The stress falls on "men".

What is another word for augmentative?

Close synonyms include enhancive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is augmentative a common word?

augmentative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.