Formative Synonyms and Antonyms

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Young
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. impressionable
  2. developmental
  3. moldable
Influential, impressionable
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. plastic
  2. creative
  3. shaping
  4. impressionable
  5. pliant
Antonyms:
  1. destructive
  2. noninfluential

Words Related to Formative

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Formative Sentence Examples

  • An organism was to him something controlled by a formative organizing principle.

  • When this stage was reached the formative age of feudalism may be considered at an end.

  • But we may say that the formative age was over when these features of the system had combined to be its characteristic marks.

  • God knows, I've seen the bastards before, in their formative years.

  • To assign any specific date to the end of this formative age is of course impossible, but meaning by the end what has just been stated, we shall not be far wrong if we place it somewhere near the beginning of the 10th century.

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