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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 baseplay

  Familiarity information: DERIVATIONAL used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DERIVATIONAL (adjective)


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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