| Main Entry: | derivative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | borrowed, transmitted from source |
Synonyms: |
acquired, ancestral, caused, cognate, coming from, connate, copied, evolved, hereditary, imitative, inferential, inferred, not original, obtained, plagiaristic, plagiarized, procured, rehashed, secondary, secondhand, subordinate, uninventive, unoriginal |
Antonyms: |
inventive, original, unborrowed, unique |
| Main Entry: | derivative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | product, descendant |
Synonyms: |
by-product, offshoot, outgrowth, spin-off, wave |
Antonyms: |
invention, original, root, source |
| Main Entry: | branch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | department |
Synonyms: |
annex, arm, bureau, category, chapter, classification, connection, dependency, derivative, division, extension, local, member, office, outpost, part, portion, section, subdivision, subsection, subsidiary, tributary, wing |
Antonyms: |
company |
| Main Entry: | imitative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simulated, unoriginal |
Synonyms: |
artful, copied, copycat, copying, counterfeit, deceptive, derivative, echoic, emulative, emulous, following, forged, mimetic, mimic, mimicking, mock, onomatopoeic, parrot, plagiarized, pseudo*, put-on, reflecting, reflective, secondhand, sham*, simulant |
Antonyms: |
different, genuine, original |
| Main Entry: | offshoot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development, product |
Synonyms: |
adjunct, appendage, branch, by-product, derivative, descendant, limb, outgrowth, spin-off, sprout |
Antonyms: |
origin, source |
| Main Entry: | outgrowth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | product, consequence |
Synonyms: |
aftereffect, branch, by-product, derivative, descendant, development, effect, emergence, end, end result, issue, member, offshoot, offspring, outcome, result, spin-off, yield |
| Main Entry: | spin-off |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offshoot |
Synonyms: |
adjunct, branch, by-product, derivative, descendant, division, offspring, outgrowth, sequel |
| Main Entry: | unimaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, predictable |
Synonyms: |
banal, barren, bromidic, common, commonplace, derivative, dime a dozen, dry, dull as dishwater, flat, hackneyed, ho hum, lifeless, matter-of-fact, ordinary, pabulum, pedestrian, prosaic, routine, square*, tame, tedious, trite, uncreative, uninspired, unoriginal, unromantic, usual, vanilla, well-worn, zero* |
Antonyms: |
creative, imaginative, original |
| Main Entry: | traceable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | capable of being traced |
Synonyms: |
accountable, ascribable, attributable, derivative, detectable, identifiable, referable, trackable, verifiable |
| Main Entry: | simulated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake |
Synonyms: |
artificial, assumed, counterfeit, derivative, factitious, fictitious, imitated, imitation, manmade, phony, sham, synthetic |
Antonyms: |
genuine, real |