Derivative Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭ-rĭvə-tĭv
Stemming from an original source
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. derivational
  2. secondary
  3. derived from
  4. caused
  5. evolved
  6. not original
  7. imitative
  8. borrowed
  9. copied
  10. plagiarized
  11. unoriginal
  12. rehashed
  13. warmed-over
  14. secondhand
  15. not fundamental
  16. derived
  17. epiphenomenal
  18. hereditary
  19. inferential
  20. inferred
  21. coming from
  22. obtained from
  23. etiological
  24. transmitted
  25. acquired
  26. noncreative
  27. supplemental
  28. nongerminal
  29. unpregnant
Antonyms:
  1. inventive
  2. original
  3. unique
  4. unborrowed

Words Related to Derivative

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. ancestral
  2. kin
  3. olefin
  4. commodity
  5. cannabinol

Derivative Sentence Examples

  • It is only in derivative words that this vagueness is avoided.

  • The later Scots Chaucerian type is less directly derivative in its treatment of allegory and in its tricks of style, and less southern in its linguistic forms; but, though it is more original and natural, it nevertheless retains much of the Chaucerian habit.

  • The book falls into two parts, the first (books i.-xv.) derivative, the second (books xvi.-xxiii.) original.

  • As in the case of the Lamellibranchiata, the shell of the adult is not a direct derivative of the youngest shell of the larva.

  • From the root idea of obligation to serve or give something in return, involved in the conception of duty, have sprung various derivative uses of the word; thus it is used of the services performed by a minister of a church, by a soldier, or by any employee or servant.

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