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Etymology

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derivative +‎ -ly

Adverb

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derivatively (comparative more derivatively, superlative most derivatively)

  1. In a derivative fashion
    • 1988 December 2, Tom Boeker, “A Christmas Dance for Johnnie Mae”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      The pleasures of food and sex are compared [] in much the same way, derivatively enough, that Bunny equates the two in John Guare's House of Blue Leaves.