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Derivational Definition & Meaning

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"

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What does derivational mean?
characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base; "the morphological relation between `sing' and `singer' and `song' is derivational"
What part of speech is derivational?
Derivational is an adjective.

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