[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding :a formative process in manufacturing.", "relating to formation or development:a child's most formative years.Synonyms: impressionable , receptive , susceptible", "Biology.capable of developing new cells or tissue by cell division and differentiation:formative tissue.concerned with the formation of an embryo, organ, or the like.", "capable of developing new cells or tissue by cell division and differentiation:formative tissue.", "concerned with the formation of an embryo, organ, or the like.", "Education.continuous and diagnostic, and covering specifically the current material with which the student is actively engaged; ongoing :formative evaluation;Compare summative(def2) summative(def2).formative assessment;formative evaluation;formative feedback.", "Grammar.relating to a formative, an affix that indicates the part of speech of a derived word."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Grammar.a derivational affix, particularly one that determines the part of speech of the derived word, as-ness,inloudness, hardness,etc.", "Linguistics.(in generative grammar) any element, as a word, affix, or inflectional ending, functioning as a minimal syntactic unit that can be used in forming larger constructions."]}]