How do you pronounce transformative?

The recorded pronunciation is /tɹænsˈfɔɹmətɪv/.

transformative

/tɹænsˈfɔɹmətɪv/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English

Syllables: trans-form-a-tive
IPA: /tɹænsˈfɔɹmətɪv/

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Meaning

adj

That causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change

adj

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.

Example Sentences

""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 Northumberland. It's a transformative project and we're going to make sure it happens.""
"“It is hard. And there is a level of viciousness that I was not expecting. I was not expecting the intensity of this experience, but this isn’t supposed to be easy. My father and this administration intends to be transformative, and we want to do big, bold things and we’re looking to change the status quo. So I didn’t expect it to be easy. I think some of the distractions and some of the ferocity was — I was a little blindsided by on a personal level,” she said."

Etymology

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.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: transformātīvus, trānsfōrmātus
Suffix: transform

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /tɹænsˈfɔɹmətɪv/
British English: /trɑːnsˈfɔːmətɪv/

Inflected Forms

more transformative (comparative) most transformative (superlative)

Derived Forms

biotransformative nontransformative transformatively transformativity

Phrases

transformative action transformative economics transformative justice transformative learning transformative planning transformative research

Frequently Paired Words

transform transformable transformance transformant transformation transformational transformator transformatory

Synonyms

transformatory transmutative

Antonyms

nontransformative