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

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley