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UNINFLECTED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection

Synonyms:

analytic; uninflected

Classified under:

Adjectives

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:

Adjectives

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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