transformative

adjective

trans·​for·​ma·​tive tran(t)s-ˈfȯr-mə-tiv 

: causing or able to cause an important and lasting change in someone or something

a transformative experience

And she'll tell anyone who asks about her transformative weeks working for UNICEF in Congo and Cambodia.

—S. L. Price

It is increasingly hard to escape the conclusion that American politics has entered one of those rare transformative moments that shape the content of our public discourse and the direction of our governance for generations.

—Doug Ireland

Examples of transformative in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After King’s assassination in 1968, Jackson became one of the most transformative civil rights leaders in America. —Abby Phillip, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025

Always one to embrace new technology and effects, CyberLink amps up generative and transformative AI features. —PC Magazine, 15 Nov. 2025

Of all the efforts coming together to get this jet into the air, the software and AI capabilities that enable Fury to respond to changing conditions in the sky while in the thick of wartime scenarios is likely the most challenging and transformative. —Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 15 Nov. 2025

But a scattershot approach won’t deliver transformative impact. —Goutam Challagalla, Harvard Business Review, 14 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1668, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for transformative

• germinative
• corroborative
• determinative
• forgive
• ogive
• outlive
• relive
• give
• sieve
• resistive