How do you use the word "transformative" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "transformative" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "transformative": This transformative experience showed me the incredible potential we possess. All this could lead to something good and transformative.

Transformative Meaning

/trɑːnsˈfɔːmətɪv/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjThat causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change

adjChiefly 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.

Sentence Examples

This transformative experience showed me the incredible potential we possess.

All this could lead to something good and transformative.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The ____ power of education can turn a poor child into a successful adult.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Education can have a truly ____ effect on a person's life by providing them with many new opportunities for success today.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

""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."" — 2019 November 6, Graeme Pickering, “New targets for Northumberland”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:

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