Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
augmentative

augmentative

1 8.1
To make something bigger or stronger
  • adjective
  • /ɔːɡˈmɛntətɪv/
translation icon : aumentativo
  • The teacher provided an augmentative resource to help students express their ideas more clearly.
  • augmentative communication
  • augmentative and alternative
  • augmentative communication system

Examples

  • Majors have additional courses in adaptive technology, sign language, physical and sensory disabilities, and augmentative communication.

    Academic text (2006)

  • For students who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), reading and writing are essential to communicate.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Provide an augmentative or alternative communication system that the student has the knowledge and skills to effectively operate.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Other connections to course content in the area of curriculum and methods included candidates' references to technology, augmentative communication, and the need for explicit instruction in social skills.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Jorge was trained to use picture communication cards, and a variety of these cards were designed and provided to his classroom staff, allowing Jorge to communicate using an augmentative communication system that would be recognized by English- and Spanish-speaking staff.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Some students with persistent handwriting difficulty may find useful assistive technologies, augmentative alternative communication devices, and computer keyboarding (26).

    Academic text (2015)

  • All aspects of communication, including language content, form, and use, as well as articulation, voice, fluency, and augmentative and alternative communication needs, are foci for speech-language pathologists.

    Academic text (1996)

  • They developed an augmentative program to improve speech therapy outcomes for children.

  • Using augmentative tools in the classroom can enhance learning for students with communication difficulties.

Synonyms

beefed-up
vsaugmentative
  • Informal
5 4.6

Stronger or bigger so it works better

focuses on causing the increase rather than describing the final state
expansionary
vsaugmentative
3 7.0

Helping an economy or business to grow

applies generally to increase size, amount, value, or intensity not only in economics
enhancive
vsaugmentative
9.6

That increases the strength or intensity of something

is broader, increasing size, amount, value, or intensity generally
ampliative
vsaugmentative
9.9

Making something larger in size or reach

focuses on increasing size, value, or intensity rather than widening scope

Antonyms

diminutive
20 6.8

Very small in size

reductive
10 7.9

Making something too simple so people ignore important details

How Enhancing

enhancive
9.6
augmentative
1 8.1

Surface Forms

augmentative positive

Morphology

augmentative = augment (transparent) = augment + ative

Formed directly from the verb 'augment' with the adjective-forming suffix '-ative', so the adjectival meaning 'serving to increase' is predictable.

Etymology

Augmentative comes from an old Latin root augment- meaning 'to increase'. Think of the word augment, which means to make something bigger, so augmentative describes something that increases size, amount, or strength.