FORMATIVE
formative
Noun
- A language unit that has morphological function.
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
- My formative years were spent in an inner city.
- Capable of forming something.
- Capable of producing new tissue.
- Pertaining to the inflection of words.
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