Formative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Forming or capable of forming.
  • adj. Susceptible to transformation by growth and development.
  • adj. Biology Capable of producing new cells or tissue.
  • adj. Of or relating to formation, growth, or development: the formative stages of a plot.
  • adj. Linguistics Relating to the formation or inflection of words.
  • n. Grammar A derivational or inflectional affix.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
  • adj. Capable of forming something.
  • adj. Capable of producing new tissue.
  • adj. Pertaining to the inflection of words.
  • n. A language unit that has morphological function.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic.
  • adj. Serving to form; derivative; not radical.
  • adj. Capable of growth and development; germinal.
  • n. That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.
  • n. A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • n. 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function
  • adj. forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning
  • adj. capable of forming new cells and tissues
    • Equivalent
    constructive   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    language unit    linguistic unit   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    plastic    derivative    germinal    fashioning    informative   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    informative    normative    performative    uninformative   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    constructive    generative    reproductive    crucial    nutritive   
     
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