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"his southern Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than her northern one"adjective(of the voice) altered in tone or pitch
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"`boys' and `swam' are inflected English words" "German is an inflected language"adjectiveshowing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes)Opposite:
Definition that contains inflected
- primitive a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
- gender a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
- paradigm systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
- conjunction an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
- connective an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
- infinitive the uninflected form of the verb
- affix a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
- conjugation the complete set of inflected forms of a verb
- function word a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning
- uninflected (of the voice) not inflected