formative

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Synonyms: normative, formatize, informative, formation, formalize, reformative, hortative, formalise, portative, forgetive, deformative

Antonyms: normative, formatize, informative, formation, formalize, reformative, hortative, formalise, portative, forgetive, deformative

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Adjective

1. Capable of forming something.
2. Capable of producing new tissue.
3. Pertaining to the formation of words; specifically, of an affix: forming words through inflection.
4. Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
   • My formative years were spent in an inner city.
5. Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.

Noun

1. A thing which causes formation to occur.
2. A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).
3. A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).
4. Synonym of derivative (“a word that derives from another one”).

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