Derivational and Inflectional
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Derivational
Derivational adjective - Characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base.
Usage example: the morphological relation between `sing' and `singer' and `song' is derivational
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Synonyms for Derivational
Inflectional is an antonym for derivational.
Inflectional
Inflectional adjective - Characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions.
Usage example: inflectional morphology is used to indicate number and case and tense and person etc.
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Synonyms for Inflectional
Derivational is an antonym for inflectional.
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