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| Main Entry: |
formative
 [fawr-muh-tiv] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | influential, impressionable |
| Synonyms: | determinative, developmental, immature, impressible, malleable, moldable, pliant, sensitive, shaping, susceptible |
| Antonyms: | destructive, noninfluential |
| Main Entry: | flexible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliable, bendable |
| Synonyms: | adjustable, bending, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, flexile, formable, formative, impressionable, like putty, limber, lithe, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliant, soft, spongy, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supple, tensile, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding |
| Antonyms: | brittle, inflexible, resistant, rigid, stiff, unbendable, unpliable, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | inventive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative |
| Synonyms: | adroit, artistic, avant-garde, breaking new ground, causative, constructive, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, forgetive, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspired, original, originative, poetical, productive, resourceful, teeming |
| Antonyms: | stolen, uncreative, uninventive, unoriginal |
Example Sentences
- Although the white paper is still in its formative stage, some signals are emerging from ministers.
- Constructed qualitative case studies for clients emphasizing summative and formative issues.
- The scene is a research center, where experimental time-travel is in its formative stages.
| Main Entry: | juvenile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childish |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, babyish, beardless, blooming, boyish, budding, callow, childlike, developing, formative, fresh, girlish, green, growing, immature, inexperienced, infant, infantile, jejune, junior, kid stuff, milk-fed, naive, pubescent, puerile, teenage, tender, undeveloped, unfledged, unripe, unsophisticated, unweaned, vernal, young, younger, youthful |
| Antonyms: | adult, grown-up, mature |
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fresh, new |
| Synonyms: | avant garde, breaking new ground, causal, causative, conceiving, creative, demiurgic, devising, envisioning, fertile, formative, generative, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, innovatory, inspiring, inventive, novel, originative, productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal, sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried, unusual |
| Antonyms: | borrowed, hackneyed, old, used, worn |
| Main Entry: | structural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fundamental |
| Synonyms: | anatomic, anatomical, architectural, basic, constitutional, constructural, formalistic, formational, formative, organic, skeletal, tectonic |
| Main Entry: | innovatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inventive |
| Synonyms: | adroit, artistic, avant-garde, breaking new ground, causative, constructive, creative, demiurgic, deviceful, fertile, forgetive, formative, fruitful, gifted, imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative, inspired, original, originative, poetical, productive, resourceful, teeming |
| Main Entry: | suggestible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flexible |
| Synonyms: | adjustable, bending, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, flexile, formable, formative, impressionable, like putty, limber, lithe, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, soft, spongy, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supple, tensile, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding |
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