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Formative
ˈfɔːmətɪv
Formative definitions
adjective
formative
- serving to form something, especially having a profound influence on a person's development
"his formative years"
developmental developing growing mouldable malleable impressionable susceptible determining controlling influential guiding decisive forming shaping moulding determinative- relating to a person's development
"a formative assessment"
- denoting or relating to any of the smallest meaningful units that are used to form words in a language, typically combining forms and inflections
noun
formative
formatives
- a formative element