All derivative synonyms
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D d noun derivative
- by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- outgrowth — a natural development, product, or result: to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
- offshoot — a branch or lateral shoot from a main stem, as of a plant.
- spin-off — Commerce. a process of reorganizing a corporate structure whereby the capital stock of a division or subsidiary of a corporation or of a newly affiliated company is transferred to the stockholders of the parent corporation without an exchange of any part of the stock of the latter. Compare split-off (def 3), split-up (def 3).
- wave — a member of the Waves.
- byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- spinoff — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- result — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
- descendant — Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
- product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
adjective derivative
- imitative — imitating; copying; given to imitation.
- unoriginal — belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
- copied — an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original: a copy of a famous painting.
- plagiaristic — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- derived — to receive or obtain from a source or origin (usually followed by from).
- cognate — Cognate things are related to each other.
- secondary — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- acquired — obtained, through buying or being given
- ancestral — You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
- caused — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- connate — existing in a person or thing from birth; congenital or innate
- hereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- inferential — of, pertaining to, by, or dependent upon inference.
- inferred — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- obtained — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
- plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
- rehashed — to work up (old material) in a new form.
- secondhand — not directly known or experienced; obtained from others or from books: Most of our knowledge is secondhand.
- inventive — apt at inventing, devising, or contriving.