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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
formative
adj 1: capable of forming new cells and tissues; "a formative
zone in developing bone"
2: forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning; "a
formative influence"; "a formative experience" [syn:
formative, shaping, plastic]
n 1: minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or
morphological) function
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Formative \Form"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. formatif.]
1. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as,
the formative arts.
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The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by
any formative residing in the soil. --Bentley.
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2. (Gram.) Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a
termination merely formative.
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3. (Biol.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as,
living or formative matter.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Formative \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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Thesaurus Results for formative:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
IC analysis, 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, 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 |
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