formational
- adjective
- /fɔːrˈmeɪʃənl/
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- Attending summer camp was a formational time for him, shaping his values and friendships.
Examples
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He/She offers a variety of formational and educational programs, events, services, and resources designed to promote the authentic Catholic teaching of the Sacrament of Marriage, family life, and human sexuality.
Blog text (9) -
As such, the mission of Apollo 12 provided the first example of aerospace archaeology, extraterrestrial archaeology, and perhaps more significant for the history of the discipline, formational archaeology, the study of environmental and cultural forces upon the life history of human artifacts in space.
Academic text (2004) -
The teacher emphasized the formational stages of a child's development during her lecture.
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Many movements throughout history have had formational influences on society and culture.
Synonyms
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Relating to the way something grows or changes over time, often in children and animals
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Relating to how living things or materials get their shape and structure
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An idea or event that leads to later growth
Relating to the process of making something new
Making patterns form in materials like rocks or chemicals
About how something is built or put together
Something that causes new growth or new ideas
How Formative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Formational comes from the simple word form, which means 'shape' or 'to make', and from formation, 'the act of forming'. So a formational period is a time when something is being made or developed.