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dɪˈraɪvde·rive

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. derive

    Synonyms:
    deduce, trace, follow, track, draw, resolve

    Antonyms:
    misdeduce, misattribute, mistrace

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. deduce, infer, deduct, deriveverb

    reason by deduction; establish by deduction

    Synonyms:
    generalize, withhold, subtract, gain, take off, extrapolate, generalise, guess, infer, deduct, descend, come, educe, understand, recoup, deduce

  2. derive, gainverb

    obtain

    "derive pleasure from one's garden"

    Synonyms:
    clear, gain ground, make headway, infer, realise, gain, reach, win, educe, get ahead, acquire, attain, pull ahead, deduce, take in, pull in, gather, deduct, descend, come, profit, hit, arrive at, advance, put on, realize, bring in, benefit, make, earn

  3. deriveverb

    come from

    "The present name derives from an older form"

    Synonyms:
    descend, deduct, educe, gain, infer, come, deduce

  4. derive, educeverb

    develop or evolve from a latent or potential state

    Synonyms:
    deduct, gain, deduce, educe, extract, infer, evoke, draw out, descend, come, elicit

  5. derive, come, descendverb

    come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example

    "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"

    Synonyms:
    deduct, go down, infer, issue forth, gain, come down, amount, total, educe, occur, settle, arrive, number, condescend, come up, hail, follow, fare, deign, get, descend, come, fall, get along, make out, do, come in, deduce, add up

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. deriveverb

    Synonyms:
    draw, receive, obtain, get

  2. deriveverb

    Synonyms:
    deduce, trace

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "derive":

    calculate, obtain, draw, deduct, drift, reap, shoot

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How to use derive in a sentence?

  1. Karl Kraus:

    Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

  2. Guicciardini:

    From things which have been obtained after having been long desired men almost never derive the pleasure and delight which they had anticipated.

  3. Goa Kerle:

    From people of goodwill, I get inspiration, from my detractors, I derive aspiration.

  4. Emil Cioran:

    We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

  5. Maria Montessori:

    The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.


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