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transformative

transformative

25 5.6
Makes a big change to a person or situation
  • adjective
  • /trænsˈfɔːrmətɪv/
translation icon : transformador
  • The workshop provided a transformative experience that changed how I view my career.

They're all produced by the transformative action of microorganisms.

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Examples

  • It's a very deep time creatively, and it's emotionally transformative.

  • But the pain of leaving can be transformative because it can make you strong.

  • And just this interview I think could be transformative for some people.

  • On the other hand, they sometimes have very transformative effects.

  • Tonight, we will have a transformative experience.

  • It's going to be a transformative experience.

  • And your podcast has been a part of that transformative journey.

  • For me, it was most transformative in the realm of forgiveness.

  • Harvard has been unpredictable, challenging, transformative, and memorable.

  • The introduction of Western economic institutions is often credited with radical transformative power in contact situations.

    Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

revolutionary
vstransformative
143 4.9

Involving or supporting political change that removes a government

is about causing important change generally not limited to political shifts
transformational
vstransformative
14 5.7

Causing a big change that makes someone or something much better

is about causing major change rather than focusing on improvement
game-changing
vstransformative
12 4.6

Something that has a big effect and changes how things work

focuses on causing important change broadly not only affecting an outcome
convertive
vstransformative
8.2

Able to make something change from one form to another

focuses on causing major or important change not just changing form

Antonyms

46 4.8

Not moving or changing and showing little activity

7 3.7

Stays the same over time

How Transformative

revolutionary
103 5.2
transformative
25 5.6
significant
2.5
noticeable
65 3.2
slight
594 1.2

Surface Forms

transformative positive

Morphology

transformative = transform (transparent) = transform + ative

The adjective is a standard derivation from the verb 'transform' and directly denotes 'causing change', so learners familiar with 'transform' can infer the meaning.

Etymology

Transformative comes from the parts trans- 'across' and form 'shape'. Think of something being moved 'across into a new shape', so a transformative change makes a person or thing very different.