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Derivational

Definition: Derivational

Derivational

Adjective

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Antonym: inflectional (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Derivational

English words defined with "derivational": derivational morphology. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Derivational

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Books

  • Derivational Analogy Based Structural Design (reference)

  • Incomplete Category Fronting: A Derivational Approach to Remnant Movement in German (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 42) (reference)

  • A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations (reference)

  • Essays on the Representational and Derivational Nature of Grammar: The Diversity of Wh-Constructions (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, 40) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Derivational

"Derivational" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Derivational" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%12101,599

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Derivational

Expression using "derivational": derivational morphology. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Derivational

Language Translations for "derivational"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

abgeleitet (deduced, derivated, derivative, derivatively, derived). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erivationalday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Derivational"

Words rhyming with "derivational" (pronounced 'Der`i*va"tion*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Derivational

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: revalidation.

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-i-l-n-o-r-t-v"

-1 letter: invalidator.

-2 letters: adenoviral, derivation, ideational, invalidate, validation.

-3 letters: alienator, antiviral, dealation, deviation, editorial, interlaid, inviolate, radiation, radiative, rationale, trainload, travailed, variation, vitrioled.

-4 letters: aeration, antidora, arointed, aventail, aviation, daintier, delation, dentalia, deviator, dilation, dilative, divalent, donative, dovetail, ideation, idolater, inertial, interval, iodinate, lariated, lavation, notarial, ordinate, oriental, overlaid, overlain, overland, rational, rationed, relation, retinoid.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-i-i-l-n-o-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: revalidations, valedictorian.

 

+2 letters: valedictorians.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Derivational


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 72 69 76 61 74 69 6F 6E 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .    .-.    ..    ...-    .-    -    ..    ---    -.    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#118 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0072 0069 0076 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

387184758867867581806778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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