Crossword-Solution: AUGMENTATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Augmentative | a. | Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. |
| Augmentative | 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. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “AUGMENTATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| INCREASING in force the idea of the original word | 1 answer |
| ACCUMULATIVE | 10 answers |
| Increasing | 24 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AUGMENTATIVE (5)
The former may be called explicative, the latter augmentative judgements; because the former add in the predicate nothing to the conception of the subject, but only analyse it into its constituent conceptions, which were thought already in the subject, although in a confused manner; the latter add to our conceptions of the subject a predicate which was not contained in it, and which no analysis could ever have discovered therein.
Upon such synthetical, that is augmentative propositions, depends the whole aim of our speculative knowledge à priori; for although analytical judgements are indeed highly important and necessary, they are so, only to arrive at that clearness of conceptions which is requisite for a sure and extended synthesis, and this alone is a real acquisition.
Burton is referring to the first.] [Footnote 378: Augmentative of palazzo, a gentleman's house.] [Footnote 379: We have altered this anecdote a little so as to prevent the possibility of the blanks being filled up.] [Footnote 380: That which is knowable.] [Footnote 381: Let it be remembered that the edition was (to quote the title-page) printed by private subscription and for private circulation only and was limited to 500 copies at a high price.
The quantities of these viands I see consumed to-day are something astonishing, though the celebration of the Whitsuntide holidays is probably augmentative of the amount.
Other slight changes occur also.] The Augmentative and Diminutive terminations have no determinate meaning: they are vague and indefinite and consequently when preciseness is required we must use the adjectives "grande," "pequeño," etc.