adj
Meaning 1
Deviating from a straight line.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
inflected
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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CMU ARPABET: IH2 N F L EH1 K T AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: declensed
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Having inflected word forms; fusional.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- (An inflected language is one in which words change form when their function changes.)
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
bent or curved inward or downward
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
simple past and past participle of inflect
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 6
showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- `boys' and `swam' are inflected English words
- German is an inflected language
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: uninflected
adjective
Meaning 7
(of the voice) altered in tone or pitch
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his southern Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than her northern one
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: uninflected
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: flexional — (grammar)
- Catalan: fusionant — (grammar)
- Czech: ohebný — (grammar)
- Dutch: verbogen — (grammar)
- Hungarian: ragos — (grammar)
- Hungarian: ragozott — (grammar)
- Polish: odmienny — (grammar)
- Tajik: оҳанганд (ohangand) — (grammar)
- French: flexionnel — (linguistics)
- Hungarian: flektáló — (linguistics)
- Hungarian: flexiós — (linguistics)
- Hungarian: hajlító — (linguistics)
- Hungarian: fúziós — (linguistics)
- Polish: odmienny — (linguistics)
- Russian: флективный (flektivnyj) — (linguistics)