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DERIVATIONAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does derivational mean?
• DERIVATIONAL (adjective)
The adjective DERIVATIONAL has 1 sense:
1. characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base
Familiarity information: DERIVATIONAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base
Context example:
the morphological relation between 'sing' and 'singer' and 'song' is derivational
Antonym:
inflectional (characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions)
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