Formative
Formative adjective - Having a role in deciding something's final form.
Usage example: a teacher who was a formative influence on generations of students
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Synonyms for Formative
Productive and formative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Productive" instead an adjective "Formative".
Productive
Productive adjective - Having a role in deciding something's final form.
Usage example: contributed several productive ideas to the project
Formative and productive are semantically related. You can use "Formative" instead an adjective "Productive".
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Related pairs
- original and formative
- original and productive
- yielding and formative
- yielding and productive
- imaginative and formative
- imaginative and productive
- important and formative
- important and productive
- creative and formative
- creative and productive
- inventive and formative
- inventive and productive
- influential and formative
- influential and productive
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