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Synonyms for developmental
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : dih-vel-uhp-muhnt |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈvɛl əp mənt |
Top 10 synonyms for developmental
- adorning
- beautifying
- beginning
- beneficial
- broadening
- civilizing
- constructive
- corrective
- cultural
- developmental
- dignifying
- disciplining
- edifying
- educational
- educative
- elevating
- ennobling
- experiential
- first stage
- glorifying
- helpful
- humane
- humanizing
- immature
- impressible
- influential
- inspirational
- instructive
- laboratory
- learned
- liberal
- liberalizing
- malleable
- moldable
- momentary
- nurturing
- on approval
- ornamenting
- pilot
- pliant
- polishing
- preparatory
- primary
- probationary
- promoting
- provisional
- raising
- refined
- refining
- regenerative
- sensitive
- shaping
- socializing
- speculative
- stimulating
- susceptible
- temporary
- tentative
- test
- trial
- trial-and-error
- unconcluded
- under probation
- uplifting
- widening
Définition of developmental
Origin :- 1849, from development + -al (1). Developmentalist (1862) was a word for "follower of the theory of evolution."
- As in broadening : adj cultivating
- As in cultural : adj educational, enlightening
- As in experimental : adj exploratory
- As in formative : adj influential, impressionable
- They are devised for disciplinary, postural, developmental, and health purposes.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- The developmental period was 30-41 days at room temperature.
- Extract from : « The Biotic Associations of Cockroaches » by Louis M. Roth
- I do not call the upholder of the developmental doctrine a believer of this kind.
- Extract from : « Opuscula » by Robert Gordon Latham
- In fact, it is a developmental sequence, like that from the grub to the butterfly.
- Extract from : « A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis » by Sigmund Freud
- Neutral, because his efforts were conserving, not developmental.
- Extract from : « Blue Goose » by Frank Lewis Nason
- All of which points to relative lowness of developmental type.
- Extract from : « The Color Line » by William Benjamin Smith
- But this has been merely the developmental stage, the tuning-up of the orchestra.
- Extract from : « War of the Classes » by Jack London
- Amphioxus is the type in which the developmental phenomena are least interfered with by the presence of food-yolk.
- Extract from : « The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume III (of 4) » by Francis Maitland Balfour
- The pronephros is distinguished from the mesonephros by developmental as well as structural features.
- Extract from : « The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume III (of 4) » by Francis Maitland Balfour
- D and E, Illustrating the developmental process in bony Actinopterygians and higher vertebrates.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 3 » by Various
Antonyms for developmental
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