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Formative

Formative Meaning & Definition
Formative Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Formative?

[n] minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function
[adj] forming or capable of forming or molding; "a formative influence"; "a formative experience"
[adj] (biology) capable of forming new cells and tissues; "a formative zone in developing bone"
[adj] beginning to develop; "inchoative stages"
[adj] susceptible to alteration by development and experience; "formative years"
[adj] relating to or characterized by formative effects or formation; "the formative arts"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Formative: constructive | immature | inchoative | shaping | young

Related Terms | Find terms related to Formative: abecedarian | aboriginal | accidence | adaptable | affix | affixation | allomorph | antenatal | autochthonous | beginning | behind the scenes | bendable | bending | bound morpheme | budding | causal | causative | compliant | component | conjugation | constituent | constitutive | constructive | creative | cutting | decisive | declension | demiurgic | derivation | determinative | difference of form | ductile | effectual | elastic | elemental | elementary | embryonic | enclitic | etiological | extensible | extensile | fabricable | facile | fetal | fictile | flexible | flexile | flexuous | formable | formal | formational | foundational | free form | fundamental | generative | gestatory | giving | IC analysis | immediate constituent analysis | impressible | impressionable | in embryo | in its infancy | in the bud | inaugural | inceptive | inchoate | inchoative | incipient | incunabular | infant | infantile | infix | infixation | inflection | initial | initiative | initiatory | institutive | integral | integrant | introductory | inventive | like putty | limber | lissome | lithe | lithesome | malleable | moldable | morph | morpheme | morphemic analysis | morphemics | morphology | morphophonemics | morphotic | nascent | natal | occasional | original | originative | paradigm | parturient | pivotal | plastic | pliable | pliant | postnatal | prefix | prefixation | pregnant | prenatal | primal | primary | prime | primeval | primitive | primogenial | proclitic | procreative | productive | radical | receptive | responsive | root | rudimental | rudimentary | sensitive | sequacious | shapable | springy | stem | submissive | suffix | suffixation | supple | susceptible | theme | tractable | tractile | ur | whippy | willowy | word-formation | yielding

See Also | language unit | linguistic unit

Formative In Webster's Dictionary

\Form"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. formatif.] 1. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing in the soil. --Bentley. 2. (Gram.) Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative. 3. (Biol.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter.
\Form"a*tive\, n. (Gram.) (a) That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word. (b) A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.

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