All developmental synonyms

adj developmental

• educational — pertaining to education.
• artistic — Someone who is artistic is good at drawing or painting, or arranging things in a beautiful way.
• unproved — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
• preliminary — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
• sensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
• determinative — able to or serving to settle or determine; deciding
• shaping — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
• improving — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
• beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
• broadening — The act of becoming broader.
• constructive — A constructive discussion, comment, or approach is useful and helpful rather than negative and unhelpful.
• corrective — Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong.
• helpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
• humane — characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
• influential — having or exerting influence, especially great influence: three influential educators.
• instructive — serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
• learned — having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite: learned professors.
• liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
• nurturing — to feed and protect: to nurture one's offspring.
• refined — having or showing well-bred feeling, taste, etc.: refined people.
• refining — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
• stimulating — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
• civilizing — bringing a higher state of culture and social development
• edifying — to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift: religious paintings that edify the viewer.
• educative — serving to educate: educative knowledge.
• uplifting — inspirational; offering or providing hope, encouragement, salvation, etc.: an uplifting sermon.
• advancing — to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position.
• beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
• inspirational — imparting inspiration.
• promoting — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
• raising — an increase in amount, as of wages: a raise in pay.
• regenerative — of, relating to, or characterized by regeneration.
• socializing — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
• beginning — The beginning of an event or process is the first part of it.
• laboratory — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
• momentary — lasting but a moment; very brief; fleeting: a momentary glimpse.
• pilot — a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
• preparatory — serving or designed to prepare: preparatory arrangements.
• primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
• provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
• speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
• temporary — an office worker hired, usually through an agency on a per diem basis, for a short period of time.
• tentative — of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings.
• test — Zoology. the hard, protective shell or covering of certain invertebrates, as echinoderms or tunicates.
• trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
• on approval — the act of approving; approbation.
• probationary — the act of testing.
• trial and error — experimentation or investigation in which various methods or means are tried and faulty ones eliminated in order to find the correct solution or to achieve the desired result or effect.
• unconcluded — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
• immature — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.