derivational

Definitions of derivational
  1. adjective
    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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    inflectional
    characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions
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