ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Underived

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Underived is an adjective meaning not derived, not related.

Meaning

not derived, not related.

Example Sentences

"Firstly,--if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?"
If their rights are inherent and underived, they may, by their own suffrages, encircle, with a diadem, the brows of Mr. Cushing.
He held that everything in existence is composed of four underived and indestructible substances--fire, water, earth, and air--and that atmosphere is a corporeal substance, not a mere void.
Thus it is that though contact of the senses with the objects may later on be imagined to be the conditioning factor, yet the rise of knowledge as well as our notion of its validity strikes us as original, underived, immediate, and first-hand.

Synonyms for underived

Depending on context, synonyms include primitive, simple, original, primary.

Antonyms for underived

Common opposites include derived.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include simple, original, primitive, primary, unoriginative, non-derivable.

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