of or pertaining to inflection (Grammar)
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Inflectional Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutOf or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection.
inflectional
\in*flec"tion*al\ (?), a. of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection.
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inflectional morphology
inflectional suffix
Adjective
1. characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions; "inflectional morphology is used to indicate number and case and tense and person etc."
(antonym) derivational
2. expressing grammatical relations by means of affixes or changes in vowels or consonants
(similar) synthetic
Inflectional Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, grammatical mood, grammatical voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case. Conjugation is the inflection of verbs; declension is the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns.
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