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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

formative

/fawr-muh-tiv/US // ˈfɔr mə tɪv //UK // (ˈfɔːmətɪv) //

形成性的,形成性,成长性,构成性的

Related Words

developmental发展性,发展性的,发展的,发展型sensitive敏感的,敏感,灵敏的,敏锐的determinative决定性的,确定性的,决定性,确定性shaping塑形,塑造,塑型,成型immature不成熟的,不成熟,不成熟的人,未成熟impressible令人印象深刻的,令人印象深刻,令人印象深刻的是,让人印象深刻的是malleable可塑性强,可塑性强的,可塑性,可塑的pliant柔软的,柔韧,柔和,柔顺susceptible易受影响的,易受感染的,易受影响,易受感染moldable可塑,可塑的,可塑性强,可塑形

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding: a formative process in manufacturing.
    • : pertaining to formation or development: a child's most formative years.
    • : Biology. capable of developing new cells or tissue by cell division and differentiation: formative tissue.concerned with the formation of an embryo, organ, or the like.
    • : Grammar. pertaining to a formative.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Grammar. a derivational affix, particularly one that determines the part of speech of the derived word, as -ness, in loudness, hardness, etc.
    • : Linguistics. any element, as a word, affix, or inflectional ending, functioning as a minimal syntactic unit that can be used in forming larger constructions.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.influential, impressionable
Synonyms
developmental发展性,发展性的,发展的,发展型determinative决定性的,确定性的,决定性,确定性sensitive敏感的,敏感,灵敏的,敏锐的shaping塑形,塑造,塑型,成型immature不成熟的,不成熟,不成熟的人,未成熟impressible令人印象深刻的,令人印象深刻,令人印象深刻的是,让人印象深刻的是malleable可塑性强,可塑性强的,可塑性,可塑的moldable可塑,可塑的,可塑性强,可塑形pliant柔软的,柔韧,柔和,柔顺susceptible易受影响的,易受感染的,易受影响,易受感染

Examples

  • For Parks, now an accomplished author, the book was a formative introduction to suspense.

  • The other recent fast-charging breakthrough is at a more formative stage, but it wouldn’t necessarily require upgrades to existing fast charging infrastructure.

  • It turns out, as childhood magic tricks go, there was no real bewitchery, just fresh ingredients that I paid little attention to during those formative years.

  • What helped Andy in particular become that sort of uber-competitor was having an older brother who’s a bit bigger and a bit stronger than him through most of his formative years.

  • The time spent with America’s best miler was formative for Magness.

  • You include a story about a poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, really affecting you in your formative years.

  • All my formative years, I spent standing next to Jay [Z] or Justin [Timberlake] or all those kings.

  • For a generation of moviegoers, there are few filmmakers more influential during one's formative years than Rob Reiner.

  • The Scopes Trial was a formative moment for modern creationism.

  • The correlation is especially robust in the lower grades, when students are in their formative years.

  • Politically they have been neglected, until the Citizens' Union gave them a formative part in political decisions.

  • If children are not in schools, they are yet subject to influences that are formative of character.

  • Consequently, we find that behind all systems of primitive religion lies the formative background of natural phenomena.

  • In its literal sense Bildung implies a shaping and formative action.

  • This was the boy that for the last four years we had considered as a great example of the formative influences of the school!

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