transformative

That causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change

Adjective

  1. That causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change
    • "You'll know the transformative effect that the Metro has had on the whole of Tyneside," says NCC [Northumberland County Council] leader Peter Jackson. "This new passenger line will have the same effect on southeast...

    Synonyms: transformatory transmutative

    Antonyms: nontransformative

  2. 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.

Origin

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.

Forms

more transformative most transformative

Related

transform transformable transformance transformant transformation transformational transformator transformatory transformed transformer transformerless transforming transformism transformist

Derived

biotransformative nontransformative transformative action transformative economics transformative justice transformative learning transformatively transformative planning transformative research transformativity