Formative
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:17 ptsWWF:19 pts9 letters
Definition of Formative
Adjective
- Capable of forming something.
- Capable of producing new tissue.
- Pertaining to the formation of words; specifically, of an affix: forming words through inflection.
- Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
"My formative years were spent in an inner city."
- Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
Noun
- A thing which causes formation to occur.
- A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).
- A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).
- Synonym of derivative (“a word that derives from another one”).
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