Question

Read the excerpt from "Poetry." When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand Based on context, what is the most likely definition for “derivative”? unique inventive unusual unoriginal

Answer 1

The answer is D) unoriginal :)

Answer 2

The most likely definition for 'derivative' as used in the above context is 'INVENTIVE'. To be inventive means having the ability to create or design new things or the capacity to think original thoughts. From the passage given, the writer used the word 'derivative' to mean that some people can create new, original things or ideas which people around them may not understand at all.