AUGMENTATIVE

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. -- Aug*ment"a*tive*ly, adv.

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. Gibbs.