What is the meaning of Formative?

Capable of forming something.

Capable of producing new tissue.

Pertaining to the formation of words; specifically, of an affix: forming words through inflection.

Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.

Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.

A thing which causes formation to occur.

  1. A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).

    A language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).

    Synonym of derivative (a word that derives from another one)

    feminine plural of formativo

    Source: wiktionary.org