Formative

Word FORMATIVE
Character 9
Hyphenation form a tive
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Formative"

What do we mean by formative?

Forming or capable of forming. adjective

Susceptible to transformation by growth and development. adjective

Capable of producing new cells or tissue. adjective

Of or relating to formation, growth, or development. adjective

Relating to the formation or inflection of words. adjective

A derivational or inflectional affix. noun

Giving form or shape; having the power of giving form; plastic; shaping; molding; determining: as, the formative yolk of an egg, which changes into an embryo; a formative process.

Pertaining to formation or development; related to the fixation of or growth into form or order: as, the formative period of youth or of a nation; formative experiments.

In grammar, serving to form; determining grammatical form or character as a part of speech or derivative; inflectional: as, a formative termination.

In grammar, a formative element of a word; that which serves to give grammatical form; an addition to or modification of a root or crude form, giving it special character. noun

That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word. noun

A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root. noun

Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic. adjective

Serving to form; derivative; not radical. adjective

Capable of growth and development; germinal. adjective

Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something. adjective

Capable of forming something. adjective

Capable of producing new tissue. adjective

Pertaining to the inflection of words. adjective

(grammar) A language unit that has morphological function.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Formative

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The word "formative" in example sentences

What ` s keeping them watching is, in fact, what we call the formative features. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Coaching in formative years is vital and it is for this reason that I have believed fervently for years that our priorities in this regard have been wrong, the inverse of how it should be, where the best coaches (which does not necessarily mean the most qualified) concentrate on juniors in their early teens, when bodies, muscle memory and brains are receptive to change, rather than on older groups as a hierarchical thing. ❋ Mike Selvey (2010)

Even though I have found it virtually impossible to 'change' somebodies morals after a certain formative period in their lives. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nor yet did Eastlake confine himself to the external forms of art and nature; he then laid the foundation of that intimate knowledge of the arts, be they called formative, architectural, plastic, or pictorial, the able elucidation of which renders his writings so valuable. ❋ Various (N/A)

During the last quarter of a century the Conference has adopted 67 conventions or labour treaties, and 66 recommendations, which constitute an international labour code which has been for two decades one of the main formative influences upon the development of social legislation in many countries. ❋ Unknown (1944)

—The yolk comprises (1) the cytoplasm of the ordinary animal cell with its spongioplasm and hyaloplasm; this is frequently termed the formative yolk; (2) the nutritive yolk or deutoplasm, which consists of numerous rounded granules of fatty and albuminoid substances imbedded in the cytoplasm. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Here's an online (e.g. superquick-accessible) resource where I pilfered the midterm formative assessment logistics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Before Messrs. Wright and Ayers, though, there was "Frank," the name Obama gives in his memoirs to a man he describes as a formative influence during his early years in Hawaii. ❋ T2M (2008)

Ironically, despite the travails of all concerned in Ecuador, this project, even though still formative is more likely to be able to gain momentum than many other projects in many other countries, including those more advanced on the studies’ front. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I recall the formative discipline of walking regularly along Bingham Road to Sunday Mass and later, often, to daily Mass; but I also remember the sadness of my brother's funeral and the funerals of my parents which I celebrated in the same Church. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the meantime, at the start of that ABC interview, John Edwards recalled his formative days growing up in North Carolina. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What I'd call my formative years as a person with a disability and the need for a wheelchair began in 1983 when I was 15. ❋ Kay Olson (2007)

The first five years were what one can call the formative stage, with the second phase characterised by consolidation albeit with new features aimed at improving governance, service delivery and democratic participation in policy making and implementation and local economic development. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Flashman's recollections cast interesting light on what may be called their formative years. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1971)

I was just at the age which might be termed the formative period of a young man's career. ❋ Shelby M. Cullom (N/A)

He felt in anticipation the censure of the Penny connections that would rise like a wall and shut Eunice from the companionship of the other children, of the family, embittering her at what he had somewhere heard described as the formative period of growth. ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)

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