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formational

formational

6.5
About how people make new words and structures
  • adjective
  • /fɔːrˈmeɪʃənl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : formativo
  • The formational process of a new policy requires careful consideration of its potential impacts.

Examples

  • As Muriel Saville-Troike states, "Silence as part of communicative interaction can be one of the forms a speech act may take - filling many of the same functions and discourse slots - and should be considered along with the production of sentence tokens as a basic formational unit of linguistic communication" (6).

    Academic text (1997)

  • Understanding the formational aspects of language can greatly improve communication skills.

  • Teachers play a crucial role in the formational development of their students' critical thinking abilities.

Synonyms

generative
vsformational
2 7.3

Having the ability to make or produce new things

is about the process of making rather than mere ability to produce
morphogenetic
vsformational
  • Specialized
1 9.6

Relating to how living things or materials get their shape and structure

is broader, covering creating processes beyond biological development
morphologic
vsformational
  • Specialized
8.1

Relating to how words form and change in a language

is broader, applying to creating things beyond word structure
derivational
vsformational
  • Specialized
8.4

Making new words by adding a beginning or ending to a base word

is about creating generally rather than only making words with affixes
creational
vsformational
6.9

Relating to the process of making something new

is focused on making processes especially for words or structures
constructional
vsformational
5.6

About how something is built or put together

is about making processes more generally rather than construction methods
morphogenic
vsformational
  • Specialized
9.2

Making patterns form in materials like rocks or chemicals

is about creating generally rather than only physical pattern development
originative
vsformational
7.9

Able to create new ideas or things

is about the making process rather than personal creative power

How Formative

formational
  • Specialized
6.5

Surface Forms

formational positive

Morphology

formational = formation (transparent) = form + ation + al

This is a regular adjective built from 'formation' plus '-al', and the sense is directly related to formation or creating.

Etymology

Formational comes from form meaning 'to make or shape' and from formation, 'the process of making'. In language and structure, formational points to the ways things are created or put together.