underivable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ derivable.

Adjective

underivable (not comparable)

  1. That cannot be derived.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      [B]eautiful women […] seem, for a long interval, mysteriously exempt from the incantations of decay; for as the outward loveliness touch by touch departs, the interior beauty touch by touch replaces that departing bloom, with charms, which, underivable from earth, possess the ineffaceableness of stars.

Noun

underivable (plural underivables)

  1. Something that cannot be derived.

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