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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne