| 单词 | formative |
| 释义 | formative —formatively, adv. —formativeness, n. /fawr"meuh tiv/, adj. 1. giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding: a formative process in manufacturing. 2. pertaining to formation or development: a child's most formative years. 3. Biol. a. capable of developing new cells or tissue by cell division and differentiation: formative tissue. b. concerned with the formation of an embryo, organ, or the like. 4. Gram. pertaining to a formative. n. 5. Gram. a derivational affix, particularly one that determines the part of speech of the derived word, as -ness, in loudness, hardness, etc. 6. Ling. (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. [1480-90; < MF formatif. See FORMATION, -IVE] Syn. 2. receptive, impressionable, susceptible. |
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