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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King