| 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. |
| NORMATIVE | • normative adj. Of or pertaining to a norm or standard. • normative adj. Conforming to a norm or norms. • normative adj. Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm. |
| AFFIRMATIVE | • affirmative adj. Pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming. • affirmative adj. Pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result. • affirmative adj. Positive. |
| DEFORMATIVE | • DEFORMATIVE adj. tending to deform. |
| 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. |
| REFORMATIVE | • reformative adj. That serves to reform or correct. • REFORMATIVE adj. intended or tending to reform. |
| CONFIRMATIVE | • confirmative adj. That serves to confirm. • CONFIRMATIVE adj. tending to confirm. |
| NONNORMATIVE | • nonnormative adj. Not normative. • NONNORMATIVE adj. not normative. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| UNINFORMATIVE | • uninformative adj. Lacking useful or interesting information. • UNINFORMATIVE adj. not informative. |
| 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. |
| HETERONORMATIVE | • heteronormative adj. Of or pertaining to the practices and institutions that privilege or value heterosexuality, heterosexual… • HETERONORMATIVE adj. regarding heterosexual relationships as the social norm. |