derivatively

English

Etymology

derivative +‎ -ly

Adverb

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.