transformative
adjEtymology
From Medieval Latin transformātīvus (“transformative”), from Latin trānsfōrmātus (“transformed”) + -īvus (suffix attached to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming deverbal adjectives meaning ‘doing or related to doing [the verb]’). Trānsfōrmātus is the perfect passive participle of trānsfōrmō (“to transform”), from trāns- (prefix meaning ‘across; beyond; through’) + fōrmō (“to fashion, form, format, shape”) (from fōrma (“appearance, figure, form, shape”); further etymology unknown, perhaps related to Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “a form, shape”)). The English word is analysable as transform + -ative.
Definitions
That causes a transformation
That causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change
Chiefly in transformative-generative
Chiefly in transformative-generative: of or relating to a theory of generative grammar in which defined operations called transformations produce new sentences from existing ones; transformational.
The neighborhood
- neighbortransform
- neighbortransformable
- neighbortransformance
- neighbortransformant
- neighbortransformation
- neighbortransformational
- neighbortransformator
- neighbortransformatory
- neighbortransformed
- neighbortransformer
- neighbortransformerless
- neighbortransforming
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for transformative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA