Antonyms for developmental


Grammar : Adj
Spell : dih-vel-uhp-muhnt
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈvɛl əp mənt


Definition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

Synonyms for developmental

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