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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs form and formate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

formative
  1. Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
  2. Capable of forming something.
  3. (biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
  4. (grammar) Pertaining to the inflection of words.
  5. (education) Denoting forms of assessment used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. influential, determinative, foundational, controlling, decisive, developmental, guiding, molding, moulding, seminal, determinant, determining, important, shaping, creative, crucial, forming, significant, impressionable, developing, impressible, malleable, susceptible, growing, immature, mouldable, moldable, pliant, sensitive, productive, constructive, groundbreaking, pivotal, ground-breaking, innovative, inventive, ingenious, imaginative, original, revolutionary, originative, innovational, inspired, Promethean, innovatory … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “Alfred Adler taught regularly and had a formative influence on many students.”
      “My father poured vast amounts of love and energy into me during my most formative years.”
      “Many formative discussions have happened right here at Penn.”
formic
  1. Of or pertaining to ants.
  2. (organic chemistry) Of, pertaining to or derived from formic acid (or from methane).
  3. Synonyms:
      4. antly
  4. Examples:
      5. “A more recent application of formic acid is for pH regulation of flue gas desulfurization.”
      “The flue gas is passed through an aqueous limestone slurry containing formic acid.”
      “The sodium formate is then carefully treated with sulfuric acid at low temperatures and distilled in a vacuum to yield formic acid.”
former
  1. Previous.
  2. First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. previous, prior, preceding, earlier, foregoing, erstwhile, past, sometime, late, precedent, antecedent, quondam, onetime, anterior, old, whilom, once, other, last, above, aforementioned, precursory, aforesaid, one-time, ex-, as was, ci-devant, ex, prevenient, supra, lapsed, then, bygone, precursive, preexistent, above-stated, above-mentioned, recent, older, preliminary, earlier mentioned, formerly mentioned, previously mentioned, before, preexisting, pre-existing, defunct, retired, forenamed, said … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “One former teammate was caught and exposed by the tabloids for having an affair.”
      “Visions of the great mansions and grandeur of a former era certainly made an indelible impression.”
      “Psychologist Bob Altemeyer of the University of Manitoba subscribes to the former view.”
formational
  1. Of or pertaining to formation (in any of many contexts).
  2. Synonyms:
      3. structural, essential, fundamental, basic, constitutional, underlying, important, organisational, organizational, operational, systemic, formalistic, formative … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Expect to see more of a big-play mentality from the offense, which has been working together for months, and more formational shifts and motion.”
      “To help design, plan and execute special prayers and formational sessions, such as days of recollection, prayer services, etc.”
      “You get the feeling that the institution controls a good part of the educational and formational centres of the nation.”
formable
  1. Able to be formed.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. 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, formative, stretch, workable, puttylike, like putty, easily bent, going every which way, shapable, yielding, shapeable, waxy, fictile … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The composites are formable with normal aluminum metal-working techniques and equipment at warm working temperatures.”
      “Dual-phase steels, which feature hard martensite particles in a soft ductile ferrite matrix are also highly formable.”
      “Alloys of aluminum are light, strong, and formable by almost all known metalworking processes.”
formed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of form
  2. Synonyms:
      3. established, set up, founded, instituted, initiated, created, based, incorporated, assembled, inaugurated, enacted, launched, started up, built, constructed, started, stationed, centered, ensconced, entrenched, erected, grounded, implanted, organized, put in place, rooted, secured, setted, brought about, centralized, got going, landed, lodged, moored, planted, positioned, put, set down, centralised, centred, consolidated, domiciliated, embedded, fixed, fixt, installed, organised, placed, stuck, constituted … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “During the first stage, the primary concrete structure is formed, during the second stage, the formed structure slowly grows and compacts.”
forming
  1. present participle of form
  2. Synonyms:
      3. getting, developing, producing, establishing, introducing, devising, formulating, conceiving, framing, preparing, concocting, constructing, laying, designing, planning, fashioning, organizing, working out, patterning, making ready, hatching, forging, working up, dreaming up, organising, thinking up, putting together, drawing up, getting ready, founding, instituting, creating, initiating, launching, building, assembling, setting up, starting, beginning, bringing into being, bringing about, innovating, pioneering, inventing, originating, revolutionizing, engineering, authoring, ushering in, making … more
formated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of formate
  2. Misspelling of formatted.
formating
  1. present participle of formate
formating
  1. Misspelling of formatting.
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