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Adjective
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Serving to form something, especially having a profound influence on a person's development
developmental
susceptible
impressionable
malleable
developing
mouldable
sensitive
growing
pliant
creative
foundational
immature
impressible
moldable
seminal
“My father poured vast amounts of love and energy into me during my most formative years.”
Adjective
▲
Capable of forming something
controlling
influential
determinative
shaping
decisive
determining
guiding
important
moldingUS
mouldingUK
developmental
forming
significant
conclusive
constructive
creative
foundational
seminal
final
determinant
settled
crucial
definitive
decided
determined
certain
key
defining
critical
deciding
settling
principal
major
responsible
causal
evaluative
prime
chief
pivotal
paramount
essential
most influential
“A formative influence on his life.”
Adjective
▲
Strongly influencing later developments
productive
constructive
original
influential
creative
important
innovative
groundbreaking
imaginative
pioneering
ground-breaking
major
epoch-making
germinal
critical
crucial
inspirational
fundamental
inspiring
generative
pivotal
seminal
primary
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
gratifying
gainful
industrious
generative
win-win
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
tenderfoot
underdeveloped
undergrown
baby-faced
milk-fed
half-grown
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
adaptable
governable
obedient
submissive
complaisant
controllable
cooperative
acquiescent
easily led
ingenuous
naive
trusting
acceptive
swayable
impressible
meek
vulnerable
sympathetic
sensitive
moldable
like putty in your hands
flexible
exploitable
supple
transformable
go-with-the-flow
bendy
favourableUK
acceptant
favorableUS
easy
easily swayed
open to suggestions
ready to consider new ideas
willing to consider new ideas
open to new ideas
ductile
perceptive
mouldable
unsuspecting
welcoming
interested
tame
plastic
pushover
prone
friendly
agreeable
willing
innocent
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Producing new ideas or products
innovatory
clever
creative
imaginative
ingenious
innovational
innovative
inventive
original
originative
Promethean
adroit
artistic
avant-garde
causative
constructive
demiurgic
deviceful
fertile
forgetive
fruitful
gifted
inspired
poetical
productive
resourceful
revolutionary
teeming
breaking new ground
visionary
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
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Being an inherent or fundamental part of a whole
constituent
essential
fundamental
constitutional
inherent
integral
principal
basic
formational
constructional
organizationalUS
configurational
tectonic
systemic
constructural
formalistic
anatomic
skeletal
underlying
important
organisationalUK
structural
anatomical
architectural
organic
elemental
intrinsic
component
elementary
rudimentary
primary
rudimental
meat-and-potatoes
integrant
composing
primordial
primitive
basal
abecedarian
beginning
introductory
radical
primal
root
original
key
necessary
major
significant
vital
crucial
indispensable
requisite
quintessential
required
consequential
paramount
critical
needed
mandatory
central
imperative
pivotal
core
focal
substantive
characteristic
staple
prime
natural
profound
necessitous
chief
compulsory
all-important
foundational
needful
obligatory
cardinal
salient
burning
constitutive
innate
connected
prerequisite
all important
must-have
at the heart of
high-priority
called for
pre-eminent
vitally important
Adjective
▲
Exerting power over the minds or behavior of others
influential
persuasive
effective
compelling
convincing
crucial
inspirational
inspiring
pivotal
effectual
instrumental
motivating
efficacious
meaningful
moving
rousing
stirring
strong
telling
touching
affecting
alluring
enticing
guiding
masterful
motivational
potent
powerful
provocative
seductive
swayful
authoritative
contributory
far-reaching
impelling
impressive
inducing
momentous
operative
stimulating
swaying
central
cogent
consequential
controlling
forceful
forcible
impactful
critical
decisive
encouraging
fateful
able
animating
capable
competent
considerable
dynamic
efficient
energetic
hard-hitting
imposing
monumental
responsible
robust
successful
vigorous
emphatic
material
purposeful
striking
useful
more ❯
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