formative

About 3.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Capable of forming something.
2. adjective Capable of producing new tissue.
3. adjective Pertaining to the formation of words; specifically, of an affix: forming words through inflection.
4. adjective Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.

   My formative years were spent in an inner city.

5. adjective Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
6. noun A thing which causes formation to occur.
7. noun A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).
8. noun A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).

Similar words

shaping inchoative immature constructive young formation summative informative instructive formal

Often followed by

years period evaluation and influence stage assessment stages influences power

Word family

formatively formatives