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| Main Entry: | derivative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | borrowed, transmitted from source |
| Synonyms: | acquired, ancestral, cognate, copied, hereditary, imitative, inferential, secondary, secondhand, subordinate, unoriginal, caused, coming from, connate, evolved, inferred, not original, obtained, plagiaristic, plagiarized, procured, rehashed, uninventive |
| Antonyms: | inventive, original, unique, unborrowed |
| Main Entry: | derivative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | product, descendant |
| Synonyms: | by-product, offshoot, outgrowth, spin-off, wave |
| Antonyms: | invention, original, root, source |
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| Main Entry: | imitative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simulated, unoriginal |
| Synonyms: | artful, copied, copycat, counterfeit, deceptive, derivative, following, forged, mimic, mock, parrot*, pseudo*, reflective, secondhand, sham*, copying, echoic, emulative, emulous, mimetic, mimicking, onomatopoeic, plagiarized, put-on, reflecting, simulant |
| Antonyms: | different, genuine, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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, common, commonplace, derivative, dime a dozen, dry, flat, hackneyed, lifeless, matter-of-fact, ordinary, pabulum, pedestrian, prosaic, routine, square*, tame, tedious, trite, uninspired, unoriginal, usual, vanilla*, zero*, bromidic, dull as dishwater, ho hum, uncreative, unromantic, well-worn |
| Antonyms: | creative, imaginative, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | traceable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | capable of being traced |
| Synonyms: | accountable, derivative, verifiable, ascribable, attributable, detectable, identifiable, referable, trackable |
| 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, subsidiary, tributary, wing, subsection |
| Antonyms: | company |
| Main Entry: | outgrowth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | product, consequence |
| Synonyms: | branch, by-product*, derivative, descendant, development, effect, emergence, end, issue, member, offshoot, offspring, outcome, result, spin-off*, yield, aftereffect, end result |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | interdependence |
| Part of Speech: | |
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alternate, codependent, commutual, consectaneous, correlative, derivative, interchangeable, international, misculate, mutual, philosophicopsychological, reciprocal
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| Main Entry: | language |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Tudesque, allophyllan, analytic, aphoristic, argotic, aureate, axiomatic, belletristic, bilingual, colloquial, conditional, conjugate, copulative, coradicate, current, cursive, derivative, diachronic, dialectic, diglot, effable, elliptical, emphatic, epicene, euphemism, euphuistic, expressed, factitive, feuilletonistic, flowery, formal, fustian, gazooly, glottogonic, grammatical, grandiloquent, heteroclite, hieratic, highfalutin, hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, holocryptic, holophrastic, homoglot, idiomatic, impersonal, imsonic, inaccurate, incorrect, informal, interlingual, irregular, laconic, lexical, lexicologic, lexiphanic, lingual, linguished, linguistic, literal, literary, literose, logofascinated, macaronic, monepic, monoglot, multilingual, neologic, neological, nominal, nonstandard, notorious, ornate, paradigmatic, paronomastic, paronymous, pauciloquent, periphrastic, phatic, phylacteric, pleonastic, polyglot, polysemous, polysynthetic, preterpluperfect, properispomenon, proverbial, regular, rhematic, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian, sonorous, standard, substandard, suppletive, synchronic, syntactic, syntagmatic, synthetic, tautegorical, titular, togated, tralatitious, ungrammatical, verbal, vernacular, volitive, vulgar
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