| CONFIRMATIVE | • confirmative adj. That serves to confirm. • CONFIRMATIVE adj. tending to confirm. |
| DEFORMATIVE | • DEFORMATIVE adj. tending to deform. |
| FORMATIVE | • formative adj. Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something. • formative adj. Capable of forming something. • formative adj. (Biology) Capable of producing new tissue. |
| FORMATIVELY | • formatively adv. In a formative manner. • FORMATIVE adv. tending to form. |
| FORMATIVENESS | • FORMATIVE n. tending to form. |
| FORMATIVENESSES | • FORMATIVENESS n. FORMATIVE, tending to form. |
| FORMATIVES | • formatives n. Plural of formative. • FORMATIVE n. a formative element or agent. |
| INFORMATIVE | • informative adj. Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information. • informative adj. (In standards and specifications) Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information. • informative adj. (Obsolete) Formative; having power to form. |
| INFORMATIVELY | • informatively adv. In an informative manner. • INFORMATIVE adv. imparting knowledge. |
| INFORMATIVENESS | • informativeness n. The condition of being informative; clarity. • INFORMATIVE n. imparting knowledge. |
| OVERFAMILIARITY | • overfamiliarity n. The state of being overfamiliar. • OVERFAMILIARITY n. the state of being overfamiliar. |
| PERFORMATIVE | • performative adj. (Philosophy, linguistics) Being enacted as it is said. • performative adj. Being done as a performance in order to create an impression. • performative n. A performative utterance. |
| PERFORMATIVELY | • performatively adv. In a performative manner. • PERFORMATIVE adv. of a statement or verb that itself constitutes the action described, e.g. I confess my ignorance, also PERFORMATORY. |
| PERFORMATIVES | • performatives n. Plural of performative. • PERFORMATIVE n. such a statement, as opposed to constative. |
| PREFORMATIVE | • preformative n. Chiefly in Semitic languages: a formative letter, syllable, etc., at the beginning of a word. • preformative adj. Of or pertaining to preformation. • preformative adj. Of a thing: forming or affecting something that comes later. |
| PREFORMATIVES | • preformatives n. Plural of preformative. • PREFORMATIVE n. a prefixture in Semitic languages. |
| REFORMATIVE | • reformative adj. That serves to reform or correct. • REFORMATIVE adj. intended or tending to reform. |
| TRANSFORMATIVE | • transformative adj. That causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change. • transformative adj. (Linguistics) Chiefly in transformative-generative: of or relating to a theory of generative grammar… • TRANSFORMATIVE adj. having the power to transform. |
| UNINFORMATIVE | • uninformative adj. Lacking useful or interesting information. • UNINFORMATIVE adj. not informative. |
| UNINFORMATIVELY | • uninformatively adv. In a way that is not informative. • UNINFORMATIVE adv. not informative. |