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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
formative
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a formative experience (=one that has an important influence on the way someone develops)
▪ The trip was probably the most formative experience of my life.
a formative stage (=when someone or something is developing)
▪ This plan is still in its formative stages.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assessment
▪ A possible way of minimising this difficulty is outlined in the following section on more general formative assessment.
▪ There will be an emphasis on formative assessment methods showing the role of the teacher and the response of learner.
▪ A new formative assessment for third year students has been introduced this year - namely, an integrated workbook assignment.
▪ Tutors will also make a positive contribution to learning through structured input, tutor-led discussion and formative assessment of individuals.
▪ So how do you do formative assessment?
▪ Training in educational methods for consultants and a structured curriculum and formative assessment for trainees require recognition and financial support.
evaluation
▪ This formative evaluation led to the use of a self-paced orientation tour combined with practical exercises.
▪ Emphasis was on formative evaluation in connection with the educational process in a specific undergraduate course.
▪ Some modifications were made to subsequent courses as a result of information collected - formative evaluation.
▪ The information obtained could be used for the modification of the course under development - formative evaluation directed towards the educational process.
experience
▪ His opposite number, Clive Lloyd, had already been through the two formative experiences of his captaincy.
▪ On the face of it, his wife, Jean, had a very different formative experience.
▪ For many, these works recall childhood memories; they were the silent witnesses to countless formative experiences.
▪ What do you consider to be the most formative experiences of your life so far, the painful as well as the good?
▪ Empathy between generations Early formative experiences are powerful factors in establishing personality.
▪ This involved his formative experience as a young anthropologist.
influence
▪ His formative influence as a boy had been John Cassell's Popular Educator, first published in 1852.
period
▪ I learned a great deal during that formative period about what made people tick and one saw what life was really like.
▪ We were married for the formative period.
▪ Psychology has concluded that the most formative period of life is childhood, and in particular the first five years of life.
▪ It has also been depicted in its formative period of development as the site of bitter industrial strife.
stage
▪ This was most forcefully brought to my attention during the formative stages of a literature-search project conducted by an associate and myself.
▪ In the formative stages of Peace Corps development, there were ample reasons for this imbalance.
▪ Besides, even within cell biology, ideas on the cell cycle were still in the formative stages.
▪ Childhood provides a vital formative stage for development.
years
▪ To my mind this is based on the proportion, or degree of influence in relation to my formative years.
▪ Still, in the formative years of Macintosh, Sculley was actively remaking Apple into a large and successful company.
▪ The formative years of many of the elderly who were surveyed was a ti-me of popular demand for greater equality.
▪ On one hand, it provided me with a connection to my ancestral land that had been missing during those formative years.
▪ The insecurities created by separation in the early and formative years take their toll in adult life.
▪ He plays Roscoe Bigger a mild-mannered shop teacher who was a schoolyard terror, nicknamed Fang, during his formative years.
▪ It must have been a considerable advantage when faced with the numerous moves the children had to make in their formative years.
▪ Today's elderly experienced great hardship and deprivation during their formative years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Marines were a formative experience for Bernie.
▪ The plan is still in a formative stage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ According to Aristotle, the male semen provides the formative power that shapes the foetus, mentally and physically.
▪ Assessment for selection and evaluation is summative; assessment to inform the teaching is formative.
▪ At the same time, the experience was formative in a more immediately practical way.
▪ For many, these works recall childhood memories; they were the silent witnesses to countless formative experiences.
▪ I learned a great deal during that formative period about what made people tick and one saw what life was really like.
▪ It must have been a considerable advantage when faced with the numerous moves the children had to make in their formative years.
▪ The formative years of a genius are a perennially fascinating and tantalising subject.
▪ The formative years of many of the elderly who were surveyed was a ti-me of popular demand for greater equality.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Formative

Formative \Form"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. formatif.]

  1. Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts.

    The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing in the soil.
    --Bentley.

  2. (Gram.) Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative.

  3. (Biol.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter.

Formative

Formative \Form"a*tive\, n. (Gram.)

  1. That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.

  2. A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
formative

late 15c., from Middle French formatif, from Latin format-, past participle stem of formare "to form," from forma (see form (n.)). As a noun, in grammar, from 1816.

Wiktionary
formative

a. 1 Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something. 2 Capable of forming something. 3 (context biology English) Capable of producing new tissue. 4 (context grammar English) Pertaining to the inflection of words. n. (context grammar English) A language unit that has morphological function.

WordNet
formative

n. minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function

formative

  1. adj. relating to or characterized by formative effects or formation; "the formative arts"

  2. susceptible to alteration by development and experience; "formative years"

  3. beginning to develop; "inchoative stages" [syn: inchoative]

  4. capable of forming new cells and tissues; "a formative zone in developing bone"

  5. forming or capable of forming or molding; "a formative influence"; "a formative experience" [syn: shaping]

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Usage examples of "formative".

I was born and bred in Auckland and spent most of my formative years there.

The panorama experienced through our physical senses, which we call the material world, as well as our individual minds and other aspects of our being, are all manifested patterns formed by a greater Mind the Universal or Formative Mind.

It seems at present necessary to abandon the original idea of Schwann, that we can observe the building up of a cell from the simple granules of a blastema, or formative fluid.

Though this research is in the formative stage, I am encouraged by what appears to be a dual manifestation of cardiac and neurological shutoff typified by simultaneous twitchlike movement of the eyes combined with a measurable slackening of the lips.

He went through his formative years in an age when the fortunes of the imperial court and those institutions that supported it, including the Tendai and Shingon churches, were far lower than they had been during the youth of Honen or even of Shinran.

It is certainly conceivable that the selfishness and cruelty towards the serfs that ran right through the governing elites of Tsarist Russia went back in some cases to the formative experiences of childhood.

Yogachara of Asanga and Vasubandhu, see the archetypes as habit-memories more than eternal Forms, though all agree that the archetypes are formative processes prior to but not other to any particular manifestation.

The levels of Formative Mind energy are increasingly subtle blueprints of each other and provide the means for the manifestation of the more outward levels.

Formative Mind and so we are more readily attuned to those people with whom we are attached or associated, for the intertwining of our destinies is written into the mind centres of all concerned.

And since it is the mental patterns at an unconscious level in the Formative Mind energy which enables us to perform any outward action, the mental repetition of an image in which the player can really perform the action well is automatically replayed when the player meets the situation on the field.

White Castle and the formative years for fast-food hamburgers exist only as footnotes in scholarly works either praising or criticizing Ray Kroc and his golden arches.

According to our karmas, according to the patternings within the Formative Mind, we receive a physical body spun out of the five tattwas and patterned by these inward essences of energy.

They cannot fully represent the hierarchical, multifaceted, multilayered structure of the Formative Mind.

Lyall Watson in Supernature, Super-nature II, Lifetide and his other books, are all explicable when one understands the multilevel, multifaceted and totally integrated aspects of the Formative Mind.

But these two revealing perceptions of order and design in the physical universe are discussed more fully in Natural Creation: The Mystic Harmony, for they represent clear scientific evidence in favour of the Formative Mind hypothesis.