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Definition of Inflected

1. Adjective. (of the voice) altered in tone or pitch. "His southern Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than her northern one"

2. Adjective. Showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes). "German is an inflected language"

Definition of Inflected

1. a. Bent; turned; deflected.

Definition of Inflected

1. Adjective. Deviating from a straight line. ¹

2. Adjective. (grammar) Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word). ¹

3. Adjective. (linguistics) Having inflected word forms. ¹

4. Adjective. (botany) bent or curved inward or downward ¹

5. Verb. (past of inflect) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inflected

1. inflect [v] - See also: inflect

Medical Definition of Inflected

1. 1. Bent; turned; deflected. 2. Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective. Inflected cycloid, a prolate cycloid. See Cycloid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflected

inflation therapy inflationary inflationary spiral inflationism inflationisms inflationist inflationists inflations inflaton inflatons

inflator inflators inflatus inflect inflectable inflected (current term) inflecting inflection inflection point inflection points

inflectional inflectional ending inflectional morphology inflectional suffix inflectionally inflectionless inflections inflective inflector inflectors

Literary usage of Inflected

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin (1908)
"45 m. thirty-three inflected, with most cf the submarginal tentacles sub- ... 40 m. all but seventeen inflected; after 24 hrs. all but four inflected or ..."

2. The Infinitive in Anglo-Saxon by Morgan Callaway (1913)
"It is difficult to discover the view of Dr. Wülfing and of Dr. Farrar: the former, I. c., II, pp. 209-210, gives one example of the inflected infinitive ..."

3. A New German Grammar for Beginners by Paul Valentine Bacon (1916)
"inflected Indefinites. — The following indefinites usually take the regular inflection of adjectives : — (а) 2Ш is usually uninflected before ber ..."

4. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"This inflected form of the noun is frequently used by itself, without the addition 'of any case-termination, and when so used it has sometimes a locative, ..."

5. Linguistic Development and Education by Michael Vincent O'Shea (1907)
"If the child were an accomplished linguist by birth, he would use an inflected form just when he needed it to express some particular experience or relation ..."

6. Linguistic Development and Education by Michael Vincent O'Shea (1907)
"If the child were an accomplished linguist by birth, he would use an inflected form just when he needed it to express some particular experience or relation ..."

7. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Stamens not inflected in bud ; styles two, more or less connate at the base. Flowers polygamous ; ovary 1-celled; fruit fleshy. ..."

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