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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

underivative en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + derivative.

Meanings

  1. Not derivative.
    • The ideas of substance and of the attributes are conceived through themselves, or immediately (intuitively) cognized; they are underivative, original, self-evident ideas. 1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy:

Forms

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more underivative Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most underivative Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

underivatively