UNINFLECTED
Dictionary entry overview: What does uninflected mean?
• UNINFLECTED (adjective)
The adjective UNINFLECTED has 3 senses:
1. (of the voice) not inflected
2. not inflected
3. expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
Familiarity information: UNINFLECTED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• UNINFLECTED (adjective)
Meaning:
(of the voice) not inflected
Context examples:
uninflected words / monotonic uninflected speech
Antonym:
inflected ((of the voice) altered in tone or pitch)
Meaning:
Not inflected
Context example:
'boy' and 'swim' are uninflected English words
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Antonym:
inflected (showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes))
Meaning:
Expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
Synonyms:
analytic; uninflected
Similar:
isolating (relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
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