UNINFLECTED

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of the voice) not inflected

Context example:

monotonic uninflected speech

Antonym:

inflected ((of the voice) altered in tone or pitch)

Sense 2

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))

Sense 3

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)

 Context examples 

Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the "Saturday Evening Post"—the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)