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Derivational

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adj. Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Relating to derivation.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Relating to derivation.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base

Word Usage

"Backformation is the reverse of adding an affix (i.e prefix or suffix) to a word (or if we’re not just talking about English, doing any kind of derivational operation on a word, whether it’s affixing, or repeating a portion of the word, or changing the vowels, etc.)"

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