Exact Match:
- etiological
- relating to the etiology of a disease; "etiological agent"
- of or relating to the philosophical study of causation
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- behind the scenes,
- causal,
- causative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- constitutive,
- constructive,
- creative,
- decisive,
- demiurgic,
- determinative,
- effectual,
- esemplastic,
- etiological,
- fecund,
- fertile,
- formative,
- generative,
- germinal,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- imaginative,
- ingenious,
- innovational,
- innovative,
- inspired,
- institutive,
- inventive,
- notional,
- occasional,
- original,
- pivotal,
- pregnant,
- productive,
- prolific,
- seminal,
- shaping,
- teeming,
- visioned
- pivotal
collapse - being of crucial importance; "a pivotal event"; "Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions"- Henry Kissinger; "the polar events of this study"; "a polar principal" related words >
- acute,
- axial,
- behind the scenes,
- capital,
- cardinal,
- causal,
- causative,
- centermost,
- central,
- centralized,
- centric,
- centroidal,
- centrosymmetric,
- charged,
- clamorous,
- climacteric,
- compelling,
- concentrated,
- constitutive,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- decisive,
- determinative,
- effectual,
- emergent,
- essential,
- etiological,
- exigent,
- focal,
- formative,
- geocentric,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- important,
- insistent,
- instant,
- institutive,
- kairotic,
- key,
- loaded,
- middle,
- middlemost,
- midmost,
- momentous,
- occasional,
- omphalic,
- originative,
- overriding,
- overruling,
- pregnant,
- pressing,
- principal,
- radical,
- ruling,
- significant,
- umbilical,
- urgent,
- vital
- accessory,
- accidental,
- accompanying,
- additional,
- ado,
- adventitious,
- afloat,
- afoot,
- aleatory,
- auxiliary,
- behind the scenes,
- by-the-way,
- casual,
- causal,
- causative,
- ceremonial,
- circumstantial,
- conditional,
- constitutive,
- contingent,
- current,
- decisive,
- determinative,
- doing,
- effectual,
- etiological,
- eventuating,
- extra,
- few,
- formative,
- going on,
- happening,
- in hand,
- in the wind,
- incidental,
- inessential,
- infrequent,
- institutive,
- intermittent,
- irregular,
- nonessential,
- occurring,
- odd,
- off,
- on,
- on foot,
- ongoing,
- originative,
- out-of-the-way,
- parenthetical,
- part-time,
- particular,
- passing,
- periodic,
- pivotal,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- provisional,
- random,
- rare,
- resultant,
- ritual,
- scarce,
- seldom,
- side,
- spare,
- special,
- sporadic,
- supplementary,
- taking place,
- uncommon,
- under way,
- unessential,
- unfrequent
- DR,
- alive to,
- appreciative of,
- apprised of,
- awake to,
- aware of,
- back to back,
- backstage,
- before an audience,
- before the footlights,
- behind,
- behind the curtain,
- behind the veil,
- camouflaged,
- causal,
- causative,
- cognizant of,
- concealed,
- conscious of,
- constitutive,
- covertly,
- decisive,
- determinative,
- disguised,
- down left,
- down right,
- downstage,
- effectual,
- etiological,
- formative,
- hep to,
- hidden,
- imperceptible,
- in a corner,
- in a whisper,
- in back of,
- in darkness,
- in hidlings,
- in secret,
- in the background,
- in the dark,
- in the know,
- in the limelight,
- in the rear,
- in the secret,
- indiscernible,
- informed of,
- insensible,
- institutive,
- invisible,
- latent,
- let into,
- mindful of,
- no stranger to,
- nobody the wiser,
- occasional,
- off stage,
- on the stage,
- on to,
- onstage,
- originative,
- out of sight,
- pivotal,
- privy to,
- secret,
- secretly,
- seized of,
- sensible of,
- sensible to,
- sightless,
- sotto voce,
- streetwise,
- sub rosa,
- submerged,
- tandem,
- unapparent,
- unbeheld,
- unbeholdable,
- undeceived,
- under the breath,
- under the rose,
- undercover,
- underground,
- undiscernible,
- unnoticed,
- unobserved,
- unperceivable,
- unperceived,
- unrealized,
- unseeable,
- unseen,
- unviewed,
- unwitnessed,
- up left,
- upright,
- upstage,
- viewless,
- wise to,
- with bated breath
- able,
- achieving,
- active,
- actual,
- adequate,
- ascertained,
- attested,
- authenticated,
- authoritative,
- banausic,
- behind the scenes,
- binding,
- capable,
- categorically true,
- causal,
- causative,
- certain,
- certified,
- charismatic,
- charming,
- competent,
- conclusive,
- confirmed,
- consequential,
- constitutive,
- corroborated,
- decisive,
- demonstrated,
- determinative,
- determined,
- documentary,
- effective,
- efficacious,
- efficient,
- enchanting,
- equal to,
- established,
- estimable,
- etiological,
- factual,
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- forceful,
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- fulfilling,
- functional,
- go,
- historical,
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- in force,
- influential,
- institutive,
- lawful,
- legal,
- magnetic,
- momentous,
- not in error,
- objectively true,
- occasional,
- operable,
- operational,
- operative,
- originative,
- personable,
- persuasive,
- pivotal,
- potent,
- powerful,
- practicable,
- practical,
- pragmatic,
- prestigious,
- productive,
- proficient,
- proved,
- real,
- realizable,
- reputable,
- sound,
- strong,
- suasive,
- substantial,
- substantiated,
- sure-enough,
- telling,
- toothy,
- true,
- true as gospel,
- truthful,
- unconfuted,
- undenied,
- undoubted,
- unerroneous,
- unfallacious,
- unfalse,
- unmistaken,
- unquestionable,
- unrefuted,
- up to,
- useful,
- valid,
- validated,
- veracious,
- verified,
- veritable,
- weighty,
- winning,
- workable
- absolute,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- antecedents,
- arrowhead,
- article,
- assuring,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- base,
- based on,
- basis,
- behind the scenes,
- bordering,
- borderline,
- boundary,
- bounding,
- call,
- caudal,
- causal,
- causation,
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- cause,
- cause and effect,
- certain,
- character,
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- coastal,
- conclusive,
- constitutive,
- convictional,
- convincing,
- cumulative,
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- damning,
- decisive,
- definite article,
- definitive,
- demotic character,
- determinant,
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- determining,
- documentary,
- documented,
- effectual,
- element,
- endmost,
- etiological,
- etiology,
- eventual,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- ex parte,
- extreme,
- eye-witness,
- factor,
- factual,
- farthest,
- final,
- firsthand,
- formative,
- founded on,
- fringing,
- frontier,
- grammalogue,
- ground,
- grounded on,
- grounds,
- hearsay,
- hieratic symbol,
- hieroglyph,
- hieroglyphic,
- hieroglyphics,
- hiragana,
- ideogram,
- ideograph,
- implicit,
- impressive,
- incontrovertible,
- indefinite article,
- indicative,
- indisputable,
- institutive,
- irrefutable,
- irresistible,
- kana,
- katakana,
- last,
- limbic,
- liminal,
- limit,
- limiting,
- littoral,
- logogram,
- logograph,
- marginal,
- material,
- noun determiner,
- nuncupative,
- occasion,
- occasional,
- ogham,
- originative,
- overwhelming,
- persuasive,
- phonetic,
- phonetic symbol,
- pictogram,
- pictograph,
- pivotal,
- polar,
- presumptive,
- principle,
- probative,
- radical,
- reliable,
- rimming,
- rune,
- satisfactory,
- satisfying,
- shorthand,
- significant,
- skirting,
- stimulus,
- suggestive,
- sure,
- symptomatic,
- tail,
- telling,
- terminal,
- terminating,
- terminative,
- threshold,
- ultimate,
- valid,
- wedge,
- weighty,
- word letter
- formative
collapse
- minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function
- forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning; "a formative influence"; "a formative experience"
- capable of forming new cells and tissues; "a formative zone in developing bone"
- susceptible to alteration by development and experience; "formative years" related words >
- IC analysis,
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- accidence,
- adaptable,
- affix,
- affixation,
- allomorph,
- antenatal,
- autochthonous,
- beginning,
- behind the scenes,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bound morpheme,
- budding,
- causal,
- causative,
- compliant,
- component,
- conjugation,
- constituent,
- constitutive,
- constructive,
- creative,
- cutting,
- decisive,
- declension,
- demiurgic,
- derivation,
- determinative,
- difference of form,
- ductile,
- effectual,
- elastic,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- enclitic,
- etiological,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fetal,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formal,
- formational,
- foundational,
- free form,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- gestatory,
- giving,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- infant,
- infantile,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- institutive,
- integral,
- integrant,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- moldable,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- morphotic,
- nascent,
- natal,
- occasional,
- original,
- originative,
- paradigm,
- parturient,
- pivotal,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- postnatal,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- pregnant,
- prenatal,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- proclitic,
- procreative,
- productive,
- radical,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- root,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- springy,
- stem,
- submissive,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- theme,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- ur,
- whippy,
- willowy,
- word-formation,
- yielding
- decisive
collapse
- determining or having the power to determine an outcome; "cast the decisive vote"; "two factors had a decisive influence"
- characterized by decision and firmness; "an able an decisive young woman"; "we needed decisive leadership"; "she gave him a decisive answer"
- unmistakable; "had a decisive lead in the polls" related words >
- absolute,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- admitting no exception,
- alert,
- all-out,
- apodictic,
- apt,
- assured,
- assuring,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- based on,
- behind the scenes,
- bent,
- binding,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- categorical,
- causal,
- causative,
- certain,
- charged,
- circumstantial,
- clear,
- clear and distinct,
- clear as day,
- climacteric,
- committed,
- complete,
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- conclusive,
- constitutive,
- convictional,
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- critical,
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- cumulative,
- damning,
- decided,
- decretory,
- dedicated,
- definite,
- definitive,
- determinate,
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- determined,
- devoted,
- dictated,
- documentary,
- documented,
- downright,
- earnest,
- effectual,
- emergent,
- entailed,
- entire,
- etiological,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- ex parte,
- exigent,
- expeditious,
- explicit,
- express,
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- firsthand,
- fixed,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- formative,
- founded on,
- global,
- grounded on,
- hard-and-fast,
- hearsay,
- immediate,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- implicit,
- imposed,
- impressive,
- inappealable,
- incontrovertible,
- indicative,
- indisputable,
- ineluctable,
- inevitable,
- instant,
- instantaneous,
- institutive,
- intent,
- irrefutable,
- irresistible,
- irrevocable,
- kairotic,
- loaded,
- mandated,
- mandatory,
- masterful,
- material,
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- necessary,
- nuncupative,
- obligatory,
- obstinate,
- occasional,
- originative,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
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- peremptory,
- perfect,
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- persevering,
- persistent,
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- pivotal,
- positive,
- predestined,
- predetermined,
- pregnant,
- prescript,
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- probative,
- prompt,
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- purposeful,
- quick,
- ready,
- relentless,
- reliable,
- required,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- round,
- satisfactory,
- satisfying,
- self-assured,
- self-confident,
- serious,
- set,
- settled,
- significant,
- sincere,
- single-minded,
- speedy,
- steadfast,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- sure,
- sure-enough,
- swift,
- symptomatic,
- telling,
- tenacious,
- total,
- true,
- ultimate,
- unambiguous,
- uncircumscribed,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- undoubting,
- unequivocal,
- unhampered,
- unhesitating,
- univocal,
- unlimited,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unswerving,
- unwaivable,
- unwavering,
- utter,
- valid,
- weighty,
- whole,
- wholehearted,
- without appeal,
- without exception,
- without reserve
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