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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024form•a•tive /ˈfɔrmətɪv/USA pronunciation adj. [before a noun]- giving form or shape:a formative process in manufacturing.
- relating to formation, growth, or development:a child's formative years.
See -form-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024form•a•tive (fôr′mə tiv),USA pronunciation adj. - giving form or shape;
forming;
shaping;
fashioning;
molding:a formative process in manufacturing. - pertaining to formation or development:a child's most formative years.
- Developmental Biology[Biol.]
- capable of developing new cells or tissue by cell division and differentiation:formative tissue.
- concerned with the formation of an embryo, organ, or the like.
- Grammarpertaining to a formative.
n. - Grammara derivational affix, particularly one that determines the part of speech of the derived word, as -ness, in loudness, hardness, etc.
- Linguistics(in generative grammar) any element, as a word, affix, or inflectional ending, functioning as a minimal syntactic unit that can be used in forming larger constructions.
- Middle French formatif. See formation, -ive
- 1480–90
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged receptive, impressionable, susceptible.
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