Definition for Formative:

• A word formed from another.

Synonyms for Formative:

• adj.

  •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)
  • Demiurgic,
  • originative,
  • inventive,
  • innovative.
  •influential, impressionable (adjective)
  • malleable,
  • pliant,
  • impressible,
  • moldable,
  • susceptible,
  • sensitive,
  • developmental,
  • determinative.
  •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.

• n.

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

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • determining,
  • bony,
  • limp.
  •
  • contributory,
  • catalytic,
  • fecund.
  •
  • prolific,
  • productive.
  •Other relevant words:
  • free form,
  • follow,
  • archetype,
  • integral,
  • creation,
  • supple,
  • inchoate,
  • fictile,
  • imaginative,
  • consideration,
  • postnatal,
  • puerperal,
  • formatting,
  • enceinte,
  • establish,
  • formal,
  • abecedarian,
  • bound morpheme,
  • initiatory,
  • Rudimental,
  • extensile,
  • suggestible,
  • autochthonous,
  • found,
  • prefixation,
  • impression,
  • accidence,
  • telling,
  • earn,
  • precedent-setting,
  • appoint,
  • limber,
  • Inceptive,
  • flexile,
  • discover,
  • Forming,
  • yielding,
  • establishment,
  • effectual,
  • build,
  • observation,
  • genital,
  • Sequacious,
  • formation,
  • morpheme,
  • submissive,
  • derivation,
  • notion,
  • Enclitic,
  • construct,
  • allomorph,
  • extensible,
  • etiological,
  • receptive,
  • inflection,
  • radical,
  • fable,
  • tractile,
  • assembly,
  • idea,
  • organize,
  • bending,
  • create,
  • ordain,
  • Proclitic,
  • comprise,
  • Eidolon,
  • composition,
  • primitive,
  • form,
  • responsive,
  • Producing,
  • prenatal,
  • theme,
  • reflection,
  • antenatal,
  • construction,
  • prefix,
  • seminal,
  • organization,
  • constitution,
  • makeup,
  • initiative,
  • gathering,
  • distinguish,
  • landmark,
  • falsehood,
  • image,
  • morphemics,
  • lithesome,
  • important,
  • morphology,
  • Primogenial,
  • unit,
  • design,
  • teeming,
  • pregnant,
  • produced,
  • diagnose,
  • affix,
  • perception,
  • plastic,
  • infix,
  • nominate,
  • fabrication,
  • device,
  • thought,
  • natal,
  • infixation,
  • meeting,
  • apprehension,
  • parturient,
  • derivative,
  • apparatus,
  • adaptable,
  • flexuous,
  • Puerperous,
  • Integrant,
  • arrangement,
  • in the bud,
  • conjugation,
  • artifice,
  • giving,
  • morphophonemics,
  • facile,
  • willowy,
  • suffixation,
  • cutting,
  • take shape,
  • sentiment,
  • declension,
  • lithe,
  • procreative,
  • compliant,
  • tractable,
  • Morphotic,
  • occasional,
  • flaccid,
  • fiction,
  • format,
  • constitutive,
  • lissome,
  • in its infancy,
  • embody,
  • rudimentary,
  • ductile,
  • unprecedented,
  • invention,
  • suffix,
  • be,
  • constituent,
  • root,
  • Gestatory,
  • paradigm,
  • emblem,
  • describe,
  • component,
  • affixation,
  • bendable,
  • springy,
  • abstract idea,
  • elastic,
  • soft,
  • Shapable,
  • Institutive,
  • order,
  • exist,
  • morph,
  • in embryo,
  • contrivance,
  • genetic,
  • administration,
  • fluid,
  • conception,
  • regulative principle,
  • stem,
  • constitute,
  • exemplify,
  • formational,
  • productive of,
  • benchmark,
  • genial.

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.

Hyponym for Formative:

• n.

  • communication
    linguistic unit, language unit.