Definitions from Wiktionary (formative)

▸ adjective:  Capable of forming something.
▸ adjective:  (biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
▸ adjective:  (linguistic morphology) Pertaining to the formation of words; specifically, of an affix: forming words through inflection.
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
▸ adjective:  (education) Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
▸ noun:  A thing which causes formation to occur.
▸ noun:  (linguistic morphology)
▸ noun:  A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).
▸ noun:  Synonym of derivative (“a word that derives from another one”)
▸ Also see formative


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