Synonyms for formative
ˈfɔr mə tɪvfor·ma·tive

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1. formativeadjective

   minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function

   Antonyms:
   destructive

2. formativeadjective

   capable of forming new cells and tissues

   "a formative zone in developing bone"

   Synonyms:
   shaping, plastic

   Antonyms:
   destructive

3. formative, shaping, plasticadjective

   forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning

   "a formative influence"; "a formative experience"

   Synonyms:
   moldable, fictile, shaping, pliant, plastic

   Antonyms:
   destructive

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1. formativeadjective

   Synonyms:
   plastic

2. formativeadjective

   Synonyms:
   (Gram.) derivative, not radical

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1. formativeadjective

   Synonyms:
   plastic, creative

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1. List of paraphrases for "formative":

   summative, diagnostic, training, schoolnet, reflex

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1. Heather Henson:

   We lived in England at one time, and I just remember as a kid being brought to these interesting landscapes and places where my dad found inspiration, i remember going to his laboratory… I saw a lot of things that were happening in nature. Those were formative years for me, watching his research and development.

2. Le Roux:

   These were real jobs, these jobs were formative, for them and for myself.

3. Jonny Kim:

   I'd say that the events that unfolded on August 2nd 2006 and days afterwards where we lost much better warriors than I, much braver and selfless, that those were much more formative in shaping what I do and will do for the rest of my life. And the actions of that day, we lost 2 really good men. I don't even know where to start. One of my good friends one of our good friends Ryan Job was hit in the face, and I learned a lot that day. Well, I think we all did.

4. J. Gresham Machen:

   Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

5. President Barack Obama:

   I don't want to psychoanalyze Mr. Putin. I will say that he has a foot very much in the Soviet past. That's how he came of age. He ran the KGB. Those were his formative experiences.