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UNINFLECTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
Synonyms:
analytic; uninflected
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not inflected
Example:
'boy' and 'swim' are uninflected English words
Classified under:
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Antonym:
inflected (showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes))
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of the voice) not inflected
Example:
monotonic uninflected speech
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
inflected ((of the voice) altered in tone or pitch)
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