Associations to the word «Derivational»

Wiktionary

DERIVATIONAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.

Dictionary definition

DERIVATIONAL, adjective. Characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base; "the morphological relation between `sing' and `singer' and `song' is derivational".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky