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Capable of influencing the development of something
Characterized by a period of development or formation
Strongly influencing later developments
Strongly influencing later developments
Carefully considered and meant to be helpful
Being, or relating to those, of a young age
(
somewhat rare
)
Susceptible to influence by suggestion
Being or involving the first attempt, act, or thing of its kind
Capable of bending easily without breaking
Being an inherent or fundamental part of a whole
Original or groundbreaking, never or seldom seen or experienced before
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Adjective
▲
Capable of influencing the development of something
influential
determinative
foundational
controlling
decisive
developmental
guiding
molding
US
moulding
UK
seminal
determinant
determining
important
shaping
creative
crucial
forming
significant
“Alfred Adler taught regularly and had a
formative
influence on many students.”
Adjective
▲
Characterized by a period of development or formation
developmental
foundational
impressionable
seminal
developing
impressible
malleable
susceptible
growing
immature
mouldable
creative
moldable
pliant
sensitive
“My father poured vast amounts of love and energy into me during my most
formative
years.”
Adjective
▲
Strongly influencing later developments
productive
constructive
groundbreaking
pivotal
ground-breaking
innovative
inventive
ingenious
imaginative
creative
original
revolutionary
originative
innovational
inspired
Promethean
innovatory
artistic
visionary
deviceful
clever
fertile
radical
pioneering
trailblazing
avant-garde
experimental
expressive
blue-sky
elaborate
well-designed
germinal
strategic
advanced
well-planned
state-of-the-art
well-thought-out
cutting-edge
newfangled
intricate
high-tech
well-built
complex
highly developed
involved
sophisticated
forward-looking
modern
leading-edge
multifaceted
nifty
forward-thinking
progressive
novel
resourceful
gifted
adroit
poetical
demiurgic
fruitful
breaking new ground
more ❯
“Many
formative
discussions have happened right here at Penn.”
Adjective
▲
Strongly influencing later developments
seminal
influential
original
important
innovative
groundbreaking
pioneering
productive
major
critical
crucial
fundamental
germinal
inspirational
inspiring
pivotal
primary
ground-breaking
epoch-making
persuasive
effective
convincing
compelling
motivating
instrumental
effectual
meaningful
moving
efficacious
telling
strong
stirring
touching
rousing
guiding
potent
seductive
alluring
masterful
affecting
enticing
motivational
provocative
swayful
powerful
forceful
striking
decisive
inducing
dynamic
monumental
controlling
encouraging
authoritative
momentous
competent
cogent
impactful
operative
consequential
forcible
stimulating
hard-hitting
vigorous
useful
impelling
fateful
emphatic
purposeful
swaying
capable
central
considerable
responsible
successful
energetic
imposing
robust
efficient
impressive
material
far-reaching
animating
able
contributory
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Carefully considered and meant to be helpful
constructive
productive
helpful
positive
practical
useful
valuable
beneficial
effective
encouraging
profitable
worthwhile
advantageous
fruitful
of use
rewarding
gainful
gratifying
industrious
generative
win-win
lucrative
good
remunerative
successful
favourable
UK
favorable
US
moneymaking
expedient
thriving
flourishing
economic
paying
burgeoning
blooming
of service
going
beneficent
booming
opportune
money-spinning
growing
propitious
strong
benignant
benefic
vigorous
expanding
instrumental
meritorious
golden
auspicious
conducive
profit-making
prospering
timely
buoyant
of assistance
fat
healthy
prosperous
invaluable
kindly
juicy
lush
of benefit
worth it
boomy
of value
substantial
serviceable
robust
going strong
behooveful
significant
halcyon
effectual
efficacious
financially rewarding
salutary
roaring
informative
blossoming
palmy
contributive
triumphant
on the up and up
mushrooming
friendly
facilitative
worthy
advisable
commercial
developing
rampant
of help
fulfilling
well-paid
enriching
fast-growing
money-making
flush
on a roll
satisfying
cheering
good for you
bankable
heartening
opulent
illuminating
comforting
important
solvent
meaningful
gladdening
sweet
comfortable
heartwarming
handy
saving
viable
estimable
strategic
supportive
well-paying
agreeable
commodious
appropriate
in the black
suitable
very helpful
progressing
improving
cost-effective
relevant
uplifting
ballooning
snowballing
promising
high-income
high-paying
in one's interests
in one's best interests
in full swing
in the ascendant
commercially successful
prolific
applicable
abounding
plentiful
plenteous
edifying
pleasing
instructive
greatly appreciated
assistive
salable
happiness-inducing
of great help
wholesome
benevolent
victorious
to one's advantage
nifty
profuse
rank
luxuriant
exuberant
toward
nice
very useful
fatness
inspiring
benign
in top form
in the pink
fortunate
lucky
extremely useful
essential
vital
pivotal
crucial
boom
undefeated
unbeaten
easy
loaded
paramount
indispensable
imperative
critical
efficient
snug
oofy
uptown
gangbusters
monied
well-heeled
boffo
in clover
appreciated
fundamental
key
necessary
requisite
respected
needed
admired
in demand
exigent
pragmatic
cost effective
assisting
main-line
crowned
hot
central
loved
held dear
esteemed
of the essence
worth its weight in gold
best
wealthy
on easy street
well spent
out in front
on top of heap
sitting pretty
ongoing
worthful
scarce
hot property
doing well
rich
leading
productive of
calculated to produce
good for
contributory
promotive
helpful to
convenient
useful for
instrumental in
contributing to
fructuous
usable
excellent
justifiable
paid off
very productive
purposeful
exemplary
priceless
sensible
worth the effort
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Being, or relating to those, of a young age
immature
juvenile
young
adolescent
younger
tender
vernal
youthful
baby
developing
growing
junior
teenage
teenaged
youngish
blooming
budding
kid
prepubescent
pubescent
underage
babyish
beardless
boyish
fresh-faced
girlish
infantile
small
sophomoric
tenderfoot
underdeveloped
undergrown
baby-faced
milk-fed
half-grown
fledgling
early
blossoming
teen
little
raw
childish
infant
childlike
callow
unfledged
undeveloped
green
inexperienced
newborn
fresh
new
in the springtime of life
embryonic
young at heart
up-and-coming
burgeoning
unsophisticated
minor
youngest
undersized
smaller
dawning
weak
boylike
nascent
emergent
preadult
pubertal
bread-and-butter
emerging
initial
underaged
growing up
youth
kittenish
naïve
unqualified
untried
unexperienced
unseasoned
inexpert
unripe
pre-adult
young-looking
unripened
newish
unformed
munchkin
puerile
not aged
not far advanced
in one's salad days
more ❯
Adjective
▲
(
somewhat rare
)
Susceptible to influence by suggestion
yielding
impressionable
tractable
susceptible
malleable
amenable
influenceable
receptive
suggestible
persuadable
responsive
pliant
accessible
open
persuasible
pervious
suasible
credulous
gullible
inexperienced
easily influenced
open-minded
pliable
compliant
manageable
biddable
susceptive
docile
accommodating
manipulable
governable
adaptable
obedient
submissive
easily led
complaisant
controllable
acquiescent
ingenuous
cooperative
naive
trusting
impressible
vulnerable
exploitable
swayable
meek
sensitive
mouldable
like putty in your hands
plastic
moldable
flexible
favourable
UK
supple
transformable
go-with-the-flow
bendy
acceptive
acceptant
favorable
US
easy
easily swayed
open to suggestions
ready to consider new ideas
willing to consider new ideas
open to new ideas
perceptive
sympathetic
sentient
sensible
sensile
feeling
affected
affectable
wax-like
welcoming
unsuspecting
ductile
interested
tame
friendly
pushover
prone
agreeable
willing
innocent
tender
soft
ready
broad-minded
wide-eyed
over-trusting
putty in one's hands
well disposed
well-disposed
easily deceived
over-trustful
easily taken in
rolls with punches
easily taken advantage of
readily taken advantage of
encourageable
submitting
frail
unformed
bendable
spongy
easily tempted
unwary
gullable
inclined
given
defenceless
UK
predisposed
nonresistant
emotional
disposed
unassertive
humble
conformable
obsequious
dutiful
passive
workable
deferential
movable
defenseless
US
easily handled
servile
sycophantic
dewy-eyed
wide open
thin-skinned
easily moved
sitting duck
highly strung
at risk
out on a limb
fall for
able to be influenced
law-abiding
subdued
game
obliging
convincible
approachable
easily persuaded
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Being or involving the first attempt, act, or thing of its kind
foundational
maiden
original
inaugural
opening
introductory
premier
starting
embryonic
foremost
pioneer
primary
primitive
prime
groundlaying
primal
revolutionary
seminal
trailblazing
initial
first
earliest
initiatory
early
beginning
inceptive
preliminary
pilot
headmost
virgin
leadoff
germinal
incipient
nascent
commencing
infant
primeval
US
primordial
rudimentary
primaeval
UK
antecedent
foundation
inchoate
inductive
fledgling
trial
young
test
lead-in
elementary
pristine
liminal
fundamental
founding
prototypal
prototype
underivative
inchoative
archetypal
preparatory
initiative
basic
leading
premature
launching
native
dedicatory
indigenous
aboriginal
autochthonous
rudimental
autochthonic
underived
previous
first-hand
prior
prefatory
raw
prelusive
undeveloped
precursory
precursive
preceding
preludial
old
brand-new
preparative
prelim
prodromal
prelusory
advance
prodromic
proemial
prefatorial
prolegomenal
preambular
preambulatory
forward
exordial
precautionary
earlier
provisional
anterior
readying
elemental
preparing
prolegomenous
budding
aborning
explanatory
advanced
before
base
prep
exploratory
prior to
beforehand
in advance of
vanguard
ahead
in advance
ahead of time
at the fore
sent ahead
in the forefront
sent on ahead
in the lead
in front
former
first-mentioned
simple
entry-level
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Capable of bending easily without breaking
flexible
supple
pliable
limber
pliant
elastic
wiry
bendable
lithe
malleable
tensile
adaptable
bendy
compromising
ductile
mouldable
stretchable
stretchy
whippy
forgiving
moldable
springy
flexile
plastic
rubbery
bouncy
lissom
lissome
lithesome
rubberlike
soft
spongy
tractable
tractile
bending
bendsome
extensible
extensile
formable
stretch
workable
puttylike
like putty
easily bent
going every which way
resilient
yielding
flexuous
shapable
fictile
transformable
willowy
tensible
shapeable
rebounding
elasticated
squashy
rubber
waxy
impressible
adjustable
extendible
strong
durable
putty in one's hands
cushiony
putty
lithy
stretching
unresisting
loose-limbed
expandable
recoiling
snapping back
hard-wearing
facile
easily handled
manipulable
withy
extendable
sturdy
tough
tenacious
vigorous
bouncebackable
recoverable
loose
waxen
weak
impressionable
expanding
elasticized
inflatable
foldup
foldaway
foldout
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Being an inherent or fundamental part of a whole
constituent
essential
fundamental
constitutional
inherent
integral
principal
basic
underlying
important
formational
organizational
US
systemic
operational
formalistic
organisational
UK
structural
intrinsic
constitutive
vital
primary
central
key
necessary
indispensable
prime
elemental
foundational
elementary
rudimentary
requisite
core
focal
organic
innate
major
significant
pivotal
critical
quintessential
paramount
chief
primitive
rudimental
cardinal
profound
meat-and-potatoes
original
needed
basal
radical
consequential
imperative
root
crucial
substantive
natural
staple
salient
prerequisite
deep-seated
at the heart of
hard-wired
meaningful
bread-and-butter
native
immanent
nuclear
primal
fundamental to
integral to
central to
at the core of
at the center of
deep-rooted
required
mandatory
characteristic
necessitous
all-important
compulsory
needful
obligatory
burning
connected
component
pre-eminent
high priority
all important
must-have
high-priority
called for
vitally important
first
primordial
initial
capital
ingrained
abecedarian
beginning
introductory
substratal
substrative
axiomatic
grass-roots
theoretical
bottom
ultimate
underived
bottom-line
deep
supporting
sustaining
axiological
groundlaying
most important
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Original or groundbreaking, never or seldom seen or experienced before
inventive
innovative
original
new
fresh
novel
groundbreaking
unfamiliar
unusual
unconventional
unorthodox
experimental
offbeat
alternative
quirky
fringe
left-field
forward-looking
avant garde
avant-garde
breaking new ground
ground-breaking
innovatory
ingenious
pioneering
creative
innovational
trailblazing
advanced
modern
revolutionary
radical
ultra-modern
newfangled
state-of-the-art
unprecedented
new-fashioned
imaginative
futuristic
neoteric
cutting-edge
leading-edge
off-centre
different
modernistic
originative
contemporary
disruptive
uncommon
progressive
clever
unique
trendsetting
unknown
strange
out-of-the-box
singular
untried
visionary
inspired
unaccustomed
cutting edge
out of the ordinary
just out
unheard-of
transformative
rare
recent
latest
untested
surprising
exotic
atypical
Promethean
avant
vanguard
hip
seminal
artistic
unhackneyed
go-ahead
way-out
pathbreaking
unwonted
brand new
up to date
fundamental
drastic
leading
out of the common
artful
transformational
this season's
new-fangled
up-to-date
influential
variational
entrepreneurial
game-changing
world-shattering
up-and-coming
innovating
brand-new
spearheading
mould-breaking
deviceful
elaborate
inspiring
special
refreshing
strategic
intricate
sophisticated
odd
distinctive
funky
peculiar
well-planned
well-thought-out
high-tech
well-built
complex
forward-thinking
well-designed
highly developed
trendy
neat
in
fashionable
groovy
unexplored
happening
hot
with-it
far out
cool
modish
modernist
unexampled
nontraditional
way out
stylish
germinal
multifaceted
involved
nifty
eccentric
far cry
bohemian
underground
lead
liberal
head
far-out
ahead of the times
new wave
mistakenly trendy
more ❯
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