derivative
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7.2
- adjective
- /dɪˈrɪvətɪv/
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poco original
- Her latest novel felt a bit derivative, echoing themes and styles from well-known authors.
- a derivative work
- secondary and derivative
- derivative of other sources
Yeah, that's that's sadly derivative and just sad.
- Yeah, that's that's sadly derivative and just sad.
- And the church, for example, was loosely based on the Trinity Church, but the style was sort of derivative.
- Still, most of your knowledge of the world is derivative of what others have said and done and claim to have found out.
- And there's, you might say there's, there's a looser way of calling something art that would fit into the umbrella of the secondary or derivative sense.
Examples
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And he had hours of material and, you know, a lot of it was derivative of other people's.
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How can the beginning writer avoid creating a derivative, stereotyped sleuth?
Academic text (2008) -
You might actually be the most derivative one of all.
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It's all a bit derivative out there, you know?
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No, no, his first piece I love, but this one is derivative.
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Everything I've been coming up with is completely derivative of everything at the Henry.
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I think what he's doing is derivative.
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It is derivative and pedestrian.
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Most of us are unavoidably partial and derivative in our thinking.
Academic text (1994) -
Yeah, that's that's sadly derivative and just sad.
Synonyms
2
4.6
Tends to copy the actions or style of other people
Not new and made as a copy of another thing
Made from something else and not original
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
9.9
A financial contract privately negotiated and traded between two parties, not on an exchange
- Specialized
1
7.9
How fast one value changes compared with another at a particular point
- Specialized
1
9.9
A private financial contract made between two parties, not traded on a public exchange
- Specialized
A financial product whose value comes from something like a stock or bond
- Specialized
How fast a function with two or more variables changes when one variable changes and others stay the same
How Original
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5.1
165
5.5
250
3.6
175
2.8
8
3.4
26
7.2
- US
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Derivative as an adjective follows the same idea from Latin derivare — 'drawn from' another source. That is why a derivative work is one taken from someone else and often feels not original.