formative vs inflected

formative

adj
  • Pertaining to the inflection of words. 

  • Denoting forms of assessment used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes. 

  • Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something. 

  • Capable of forming something. 

  • Capable of producing new tissue. 

noun
  • A language unit that has morphological function. 

inflected

adj
  • Having inflected word forms; fusional. 

  • bent or curved inward or downward 

  • Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word). 

  • Deviating from a straight line. 

How often have the words formative and inflected occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )