Crossword-Solution: FORMATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Formative | a. | Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. |
| Formative | a. | Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative. |
| Formative | a. | Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter. |
| Formative | n. | That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word. |
| Formative | n. | A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “FORMATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| minimal language unit that has a syntactic function | 1 answer |
| USED in forming words | 1 answer |
| SERVING to form | 1 answer |
| FORMATION (pert. to) | 1 answer |
| Developmental (as years) | 1 answer |
| normative | 2 answers |
| plasmic | 3 answers |
| glyptic | 3 answers |
| in form | 3 answers |
| developmental | 4 answers |
| in a state of | 4 answers |
| Teachable | 8 answers |
| Germinal | 11 answers |
| constitutive | 39 answers |
| Plastic. | 43 answers |
| important person | 67 answers |
| Formal | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FORMATIVE (5)
The rebuffs that he had met at the hands of men, both black and white, had had their effect upon his mind while yet it was in a formative state, and easily influenced.
Grandfather and grandson had both the Roman nose which appears to have flourished chiefly at the formative period of the republic, and which occurs more rarely in the descendants of the conscript fathers, though it still characterises the profiles of a good many Boston ladies.
But so sheltered was he by North Wind's arm and bosom that only at times, in the fiercer onslaught of some curl-billowed eddy, did he recognise for a moment how wild was the storm in which he was carried, nestling in its very core and formative centre.
Only occasionally, and then with a very light touch, does Anderson try to fill out the social arrangements of his imaginary town—although the fact that his stories are set in a mid-American place like Winesburg does constitute an important formative condition.
But during the whole fundamentally formative period of her life Susan Lenox had been trained to order and system, and they had become part of her being, beyond the power of drink and opium and prostitution to disintegrate them until the general break-up should come.
Quotes with FORMATIVE (3)
From our first breath to our last, we’re presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs.
Health is normal. The human body is a self-repairing, self-defending, self-healing marvel. Disease is relatively difficult to induce, considering the body's powerful immune system. However, this complicated and delicate machinery can be damaged if fed the wrong fuel during the formative years. ... Healthy living with nutritional excellence throughout life can slow the decline of aging. It can prevent the years and years of suffering in ill health that is so common today as pe…
We don’t actually know what a positive or negative experience is. Some of the most difficult and stressful moments of our lives also end up being the most formative and motivating. Some of the best and most gratifying experiences of our lives are also the most distracting and demotivating. Don’t trust your conception of positive/negative experiences. All that we know for certain is what hurts in the moment and what doesn’t. And that’s not worth much.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2000–2008).