formative (n.)
- abecedarian
- aboriginal
- accidence
- affix
- affixation
- allomorph
- beginning
- bending
- budding
- compliant
- component
- conjugation
- constituent
- cutting
- declension
- derivation
- determinative
- elastic
- formal
- fundamental
- giving
- inaugural
- inchoative
- infant
- infix
- inflection
- initial
- initiative
- integral
- limber
- morph
- morpheme
- morphology
- morphophonemics
- natal
- original
- paradigm
- plastic
- pliant
- prefix
- prefixation
- primary
- prime
- primitive
- radical
- root
- sensitive
- stem
- suffix
- suffixation
- theme
- ur
- yielding
formative (adj.)
- abecedarian
- aboriginal
- adaptable
- antenatal
- autochthonous
- beginning
- bendable
- bending
- budding
- causal
- causative
- compliant
- constituent
- constitutive
- constructive
- creative
- cutting
- decisive
- determinative
- ductile
- effectual
- elastic
- elemental
- elementary
- embryonic
- etiological
- extensible
- extensile
- facile
- fetal
- fictile
- flexible
- flexile
- flexuous
- formable
- formal
- formational
- fundamental
- generative
- giving
- impressible
- impressionable
- inaugural
- inceptive
- inchoate
- inchoative
- incipient
- infantile
- initial
- initiative
- initiatory
- integral
- introductory
- inventive
- limber
- lissome
- lithe
- lithesome
- malleable
- moldable
- nascent
- natal
- occasional
- original
- originative
- parturient
- pivotal
- plastic
- pliable
- pliant
- postnatal
- pregnant
- prenatal
- primal
- primary
- prime
- primeval
- primitive
- procreative
- productive
- radical
- receptive
- responsive
- rudimentary
- sensitive
- springy
- submissive
- supple
- susceptible
- tractable
- tractile
- ur
- whippy
- willowy
- yielding
