Formative is a word that describes something that made you who you are. You might call your adolescence your formative years because that time period had such a strong influence on the rest of your life.
Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic;
Noun
minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function
Adjective S.
forming or capable of forming or molding; "a formative influence"; "a formative experience"
Adjective S.
capable of forming new cells and tissues; "a formative zone in developing bone"
Adjective S.
beginning to develop; "inchoative stages"
Adjective S.
susceptible to alteration by development and experience; "formative years"
Adjective
relating to or characterized by formative effects or formation; "the formative arts"
a.
Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic;
as, the formative arts.
a.
Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a
termination merely formative.
a.
Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living
or formative matter.
n.
That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of
the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.
n.
A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as
from a root.
Formative
The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing in the soil.2.
Formative
Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic;
That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.
Usage Examples
I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Other Usage ExamplesI would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.
A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.
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