Synonyms of the word formative


FORMATIVECONSTRUCTIVE - IMMATURE - PLASTIC - SHAPING - YOUNG

formative

  • adj. Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
  • adj. Capable of forming something.
  • adj. (biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
  • adj. (grammar) Pertaining to the inflection of words.
  • adj. (education) Denoting forms of assessment used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
  • n. (grammar) A language unit that has morphological function.

constructive

  • adj. Relating to or causing construction.
  • adj. Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
  • adj. (law) Imputed by law; created to give legal effect to something for equitable reasons, as with constructive…

immature

  • adj. Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
  • adj. Childish in behavior, not mature.
  • n. An immature member of a species.

plastic

  • n. (obsolete) A sculptor, moulder.
  • n. (archaic) Any solid but malleable substance.
  • n. A synthetic, thermoplastic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer.
  • n. Any similar synthetic material, not necessarily thermoplastic.
  • n. (colloquial, metonymically) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
  • n. (slang) Fakeness, or a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest…
  • adj. Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
  • adj. (medicine, now rare) Producing tissue.
  • adj. (dated) Creative, formative.
  • adj. (biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
  • adj. Made of plastic.
  • adj. Inferior or not the real thing; ersatz.
  • adj. (slang) Fake, snobbish. Usually refers to a person.

shaping

  • n. The action of the verb to shape.
  • n. (psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.
  • v. present participle of shape.

young

  • adj. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
  • adj. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
  • adj. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
  • adj. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
  • adj. (of a decade of life) Early.
  • adj. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
  • adj. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
  • adj. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
  • n. People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.
  • n. Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
  • n. (rare, possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
  • v. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
  • v. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
  • v. (geology) To exhibit younging.

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