Relating to or serving to augment; having the capacity or tendency to increase or enhance.
From augment plus the suffix '-ive' (having the nature or quality of). Similar to augmentative but less commonly used in modern English.
While 'augmentative' is the standard form, 'augmentive' appears in older texts and specialized contexts—it's a linguistic fossil showing how English handles this concept!
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