formative

Main Entry:
formative [fawr-muh-tiv]
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
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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