Synonyms of deriving

deriving

verb

present participle of derive

as in understanding

to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information

from the summit, he was able to derive his location from the position of several prominent landmarks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• understanding
• deciding
• inferring
• deducing
• concluding
• extrapolating
• reasoning
• thinking
• judging
• assuming
• guessing
• ascertaining
• speculating
• reading
• gathering
• supposing
• making out
• interpreting
• drawing a conclusion
• construing
• contemplating
• rationalizing
• conjecturing
• surmising
• finding out
• philosophizing
• doping (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of deriving

There is just enough wry humor—think Shaun of the Dead—sprinkled throughout to keep things from getting too grim, often deriving from Bryan’s cluelessness and general lack of skills. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026

The Chiefs finished dead last in the NFL with 362 yards deriving from explosive rushes last season. — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026

In 1995, the death of 16-year-old John Marshall, who suffered a heart attack deriving from an undiagnosed condition known as arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, proved to be a line-in-the-sand moment. — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

There's no retrieval system for reusing institutional knowledge rather than re-deriving it. — Imran Aftab, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Nurse also has a history of violence in Miami-Dade, Florida, prosecutors said, where he was sentenced to five years of probation for deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution in November 2019. — John Annese, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026

Understand that your parents must be deriving some satisfaction from encouraging your brother’s dependency. — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026

But deriving a unified theory of volcanism will require a geologic Manhattan Project. — Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2026

On Thursday, a jury found Geisy Rodriguez Brito, 33, of Royal Palm Beach, guilty of human trafficking and unlawful use of a two-way communications device but not guilty of deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution or witness tampering. — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026