Definition for Formative:

• A word formed from another.

Synonyms for Formative:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • formative.
  •beginning (adjective)
  • inaugural,
  • infantile,
  • nascent,
  • aboriginal,
  • preliminary,
  • fetal,
  • genesis,
  • Dawned,
  • beginning,
  • primeval,
  • hatching,
  • early,
  • newborn,
  • germinal,
  • sprouting,
  • new,
  • budding,
  • emerging,
  • first,
  • precursory,
  • preparatory,
  • initial,
  • foremost,
  • alpha,
  • maiden,
  • incipient,
  • primal,
  • baby,
  • Commencing,
  • infant,
  • embryonic,
  • primordial,
  • starting,
  • introductory.
  •causative (adjective)
  • generative,
  • motivational,
  • executive,
  • influential,
  • responsible,
  • pivotal,
  • effective,
  • causal.
  •creative (adjective)
  • visionary,
  • innovational,
  • inspired,
  • originative,
  • Deviceful,
  • innovative,
  • inventive,
  • Demiurgic,
  • leading-edge.
  •flexible (adjective)
  • ex tensile,
  • ex tensible,
  • tractile,
  • more tractile,
  • most formable,
  • most tractile,
  • ex-tensile,
  • more formable,
  • limber,
  • more tensile,
  • whippier,
  • tensile,
  • more stretchable,
  • stretchier,
  • stretchiest,
  • ex-tensible,
  • stretchest,
  • whippiest,
  • most stretchable,
  • most tensile.
  •original (adjective)
  • most novel,
  • untried.
  •pure (adjective)
  • basic,
  • stainless,
  • irreducible,
  • virtuous,
  • decent,
  • honorable,
  • untarnished,
  • unsullied,
  • unblemished,
  • fundamental,
  • unadorned,
  • basal,
  • pure,
  • prime,
  • white,
  • simple,
  • elemental,
  • indivisible,
  • unadulterated,
  • uncluttered,
  • guiltless,
  • primary,
  • clean,
  • elementary,
  • Simon-pure,
  • blameless,
  • immaculate,
  • austere,
  • plain,
  • purebred,
  • undefiled,
  • faultless,
  • bare,
  • unalloyed,
  • untainted,
  • essential,
  • chaste,
  • monolithic,
  • clear,
  • spotless,
  • undiluted,
  • angelic,
  • sinless,
  • innocent,
  • foundational,
  • atomic,
  • stark.
  •structural (adjective)
  • anatomical,
  • constructural,
  • anatomic,
  • tectonic,
  • formational,
  • formalistic.
  •suggestible (adjective)
  • suggestible.

• n.

  •
  • impressionable,
  • decisive,
  • pliable,
  • instrumental,
  • enabling.
  •constructive (noun)
  • constructive.
  •formative (noun)
  • young,
  • shaping,
  • inchoative,
  • immature.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • conducive,
  • driving,
  • bony,
  • determining,
  • limp,
  • deciding.
  •
  • contributory,
  • catalytic,
  • fecund.
  •
  • productive,
  • fertile,
  • prolific.

Paraphrases for Formative:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    embryonic, training, instructive, Nurturing.
  • Proper noun, singular
    experiments, experiences, summative.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    formation, training.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    educational.

Antonyms for Formative:

• adj.

  • influential, impressionable
    noninfluential, destructive.
  • Other antonyms:
    unproductive, nonproductive, nonconstructive.

Formative Sentence Examples:

• He has, however, left enough poetry of such excellence as to place him in the first rank of English poets, and enough philosophic, critical, and theological matter to constitute him one of the principal intellectually formative forces of his time.

• Just as in an organism we have these three things - formative matter, formed matter, and the forming principle or life; so in the soul we have the old nature, the renewed nature, and the transforming Life.

Hyponym for Formative:

• n.

  • communication
    linguistic unit, language unit.