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inflective |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Inflective \In*flect"ive\, a. 1. Capable of or pertaining to inflection; deflecting; as the inflective quality of the air. --Derham. 2. (Gram.) Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection. {Inflective language} (Philol.), a language like the Greek or Latin, consisting largely of stems with variable terminations or suffixes which were once independent words English is both agglutinative, as manlike, headache, and inflective, as he his him Cf {Agglutinative}.
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