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derivative

noun as in product, descendant

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These movies follow a number of those derivative action movie prescriptions.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the morphine derivative is the most addictive drug in its class.

Of course these are derivative, too, almost as though Serra were his own pupil, or a forger of his own pieces.

The new idea of making the said Dorito shell spicier and adding a splash of lime is derivative at best.

Some of those owners are outside your country, so you don't even get derivative benefits.

Those who hold that the species were the basis of the ancient Modes or harmoniai must regard the keys as derivative.

The derivative law in this case depends not solely on laws, but on a collocation; and collocations cannot be reduced to any law.

In the example in question, we know the causes on which the derivative uniformity depends.

Some are ultimate properties, others derivative; of some, no cause can be assigned, but others are manifestly dependent on causes.

It is a derivative word, from Algonkin, and gan the penultimate syllable of the Odjibwa term Sa-g--gan, a lake.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to derivative, such as: cognate, secondary, subordinate, acquired, ancestral, and caused.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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