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formative
[fawr-muh-tiv]
adjective
giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding.
a formative process in manufacturing.
relating to formation or development.
a child's most formative years.
Synonyms: , ,Biology.Ìý
capable of developing new cells or tissue by cell division and differentiation.
formative tissue.
concerned with the formation of an embryo, organ, or the like.
Education.Ìýcontinuous and diagnostic, and covering specifically the current material with which the student is actively engaged; ongoing: formative evaluation;
formative assessment;
formative evaluation;
formative feedback.
Grammar.Ìýrelating to a formative, an affix that indicates the part of speech of a derived word.
noun
Grammar.Ìýa derivational affix, particularly one that determines the part of speech of the derived word, as -ness, in loudness, hardness, etc.
Linguistics.Ìý(in generative grammar) any element, as a word, affix, or inflectional ending, functioning as a minimal syntactic unit that can be used in forming larger constructions.
formative
/ ˈ´Úɔ˳¾É™³Ùɪ±¹ /
adjective
of or relating to formation, development, or growth
formative years
shaping; moulding
a formative experience
(of tissues and cells in certain parts of an organism) capable of growth and differentiation
functioning in the formation of derived, inflected, or compound words
noun
an inflectional or derivational affix
(in generative grammar) any of the minimum units of a sentence that have syntactic function
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- formatively adverb
- formativeness noun
- nonformative adjective
- nonformatively adverb
- subformative adjective
- subformatively adverb
- subformativeness noun
- unformative adjective
- ˈ´Ú´Ç°ù³¾²¹³Ù¾±±¹±ð±ô²â adverb
- ˈ´Ú´Ç°ù³¾²¹³Ù¾±±¹±ð²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of formative1
Example Sentences
Seeing Escola on that stage accepting their first Tony while honoring one of their formative inspirations, it struck me that this is the kind of heartening, full-circle moment we rarely witness.
Scott came out as gay at the age of 15, and said the show played a huge role in his formative years.
The episode is a celebration of all of the cultural references that make up our creative oeuvre, the kind that stay with us long past our most formative adolescent years.
Like most British players, the 22-year-old Briton had less exposure to the red dirt in her formative years and lacks experience on these courts as a professional.
Akil didn’t give the book much thought since those formative years.
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