derivatively
English
editEtymology
editFrom derivative + -ly.
Adverb
editderivatively (comparative more derivatively, superlative most derivatively)
- 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.