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Meaning of "inflective" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INFLECTIVE

inflective  [ɪnˈflɛktɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFLECTIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inflective is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INFLECTIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Inflection

In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case. The inflection of verbs is also called conjugation, and the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns is also called declension. An inflection expresses one or more grammatical categories with a prefix, suffix or infix, or another internal modification such as a vowel change. For example, the Latin verb ducam, meaning "I will lead", includes the suffix -am, expressing person, number, and tense. The use of this suffix is an inflection. In contrast, in the English clause "I will lead", the word lead is not inflected for any of person, number, or tense; it is simply the bare form of a verb. The inflected form of a word often contains both a free morpheme, and a bound morpheme. For example, the English word cars is a noun that is inflected for number, specifically to express the plural; the content morpheme car is unbound because it could stand alone as a word, while the suffix -s is bound because it cannot stand alone as a word.

Definition of inflective in the English dictionary

The definition of inflective in the dictionary is having inflections.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFLECTIVE


collective
kəˈlɛktɪv
deflective
dɪˈflɛktɪv
detective
dɪˈtɛktɪv
effective
ɪˈfɛktɪv
elective
ɪˈlɛktɪv
irreflective
ɪrɪˈflɛktɪv
neglective
nɪˈɡlɛktɪv
non-reflective
ˌnɒnrɪˈflɛktɪv
nonselective
ˌnɒnsɪˈlɛktɪv
objective
əbˈdʒɛktɪv
perspective
pəˈspɛktɪv
prospective
prəˈspɛktɪv
protective
prəˈtɛktɪv
recollective
ˌrɛkəˈlɛktɪv
reflective
rɪˈflɛktɪv
respective
rɪˈspɛktɪv
retroreflective
ˌrɛtrəʊrɪˈflɛktɪv
selective
sɪˈlɛktɪv
subjective
səbˈdʒɛktɪv
unreflective
ˌʌnrɪˈflɛktɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFLECTIVE

inflator
inflatus
inflect
inflectable
inflected
inflectedness
inflection
inflectional
inflectionally
inflectionless
inflector
inflexed
inflexibility
inflexible
inflexibleness
inflexibly
inflexion
inflexional
inflexionally
inflexionless

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFLECTIVE

active
addictive
alternative
attractive
constrictive
constructive
corrective
cost-effective
destructive
directive
distinctive
inactive
interactive
predictive
proactive
productive
radioactive
reactive
reproductive
retrospective
seductive

Synonyms and antonyms of inflective in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «inflective» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INFLECTIVE

Find out the translation of inflective to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inflective from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inflective» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

抑扬
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

flexional
570 millions of speakers

English

inflective
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लचीला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عطفي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

флективного
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

flexiva
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

inflective
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

flexionnel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Inflektif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

inflective
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

屈曲する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

inflective
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inflective
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có biến hóa ở ngư vi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

inflective
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परावर्तनशील
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

inflective
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

flessiva
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

inflective
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

флективного
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inflective
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

inflective
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verbuigend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inflective
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

inflective
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inflective

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFLECTIVE»

The term «inflective» is used very little and occupies the 173.976 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INFLECTIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «inflective» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «inflective» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inflective

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFLECTIVE»

Discover the use of inflective in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inflective and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Musky Misc.: A Book of Reflections, Deflections, and ...
From a biomechanical engineer to a television producer, the voices in Musky Misc. aim to offer new interpretations of poetry and provoke thought from the reader. ___________________ Praise For Musky Misc. "The book is great!
Usman Ather, Faraaz Saiduzzaman, 2010
2
Sign Language Research: Theoretical Issues
These data demonstrate that the morphology of LIS nouns and verbs is complex and heterogeneous, including uninflective, and inflective patterns of different types. The Relation Between Noun and Verb Morphology In order to assess the ...
Ceil Lucas, 1990
3
Handbook of Orthography and Literacy
Inflective and derivative morphemes are bound units. Bound morphemes are classified according to their position with respect to the stem in prefixes, suffixes, infixes, and circumfixes. Circumfixes are discontinuous morphemes, whereas ...
R. Malatesha Joshi, P.G. Aaron, 2013
4
A Grammar of the Sanscrit Language: 1
II may optionally be substituted for II or (instead of the regular permutation with W or 3), before if" followed by Ugsi And, in general, the penultimate vowel of an inflective root becomes short, when sm, together with UZZ, is subjoined: excepting ...
Henry T. Colebrooke, 1805
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A Grammar of the Sanscrit Language, by H.T. Colebrooke
Theoridd'lzi element is substituted for the final of an inflective. root ending in 3 ( except one denominated KING), before asa'rvad'lza'tuca affix distinguished by amute 'I and beginning with aconsonant, prOvided something have been ...
Henry Thomas Colebrooke, 1805
6
The Typology and Dialectology of Romani
The main inflective features in Romani are: extensive cumulation in the principally agglutinative word structure, a few inflective word-forms, grammatical classificatory categories, the materialized devices of subclassification, the sharp ...
Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Khristo Ki?u?chukov, 1997
7
Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: ...
Morphological systems of inflective languages are finite (usually about 2-3 million grammatical word forms for a dictionary of about 100,000 words), so in fact any method leads to the same result. Still, there are differences in time and effort ...
Alexander Gelbukh
8
United States Congressional serial set
... the whole languages which make use of word order only for grammatical purposes are isolating in type, further, that languages that make a liberal grammatical use of internal vowel or consonant change may be suspected of being inflective.
‎1913
9
Report of the Board of Regents
In the third, the inflective, type of language, while a word may be analyzed into a radical portion and a number of subordinate grammatical elements, it is to be noted that the unity formed by the two is a very firm one, moreover that there is by no ...
‎1913
10
Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance
An example from Latin, a typical inflective language, will illustrate the difference between the agglutinative and inflective types. In a sentence like video homines " I see the men," it is true that the verb form video may be analyzed into a radical ...
‎1911

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFLECTIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inflective is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jazz Junction Review:MARY STALLINGS – FEELIN' GOOD – High …
The program closes with another evergreen, “Yesterdays”, the plaintive, life-worn quality of which is rendered with inflective emotion. “Feelin' ... «91.5 KIOS-FM, Apr 15»
2
Nuveen Closed-End Funds Announce Portfolio Management Update
Prior to joining NWQ in 2015, he served as Chief Investment Officer, President and founding member of Inflective Asset Management, ... «Business Wire, Jan 15»
3
Greenville's John 'Johnny O' Ortiz's dream job is coming to fruition
With a voice that must have been molded by the announcing gods of old, Ortiz has not only the perfect inflective pitches and tones for fight ... «Greenville Daily News, Dec 14»
4
VIDEO GAME REVIEW: O 'Destiny'–its beauty lies in the eye of the …
So Destiny (which grossed more than $325 million worldwide in its first five days) is a humorless, emotionally un-inflective, cliché-ridden space ... «Washington Post, Sep 14»
5
8 tips for fact-checking from PolitiFact
Factual statements can be inflective with opinions, while statements of opinion can also be based on incorrect facts. Juliette Jowit, who runs the ... «Journalism.co.uk, Jun 14»
6
Eye On The Experts: Chris Waddle
The rising inflective and increasingly Valley Girl-isation of language will never leave an impression on The Waddler. Tactical genius or tactics ... «Football365.com, May 14»
7
Students, parents get career glimpse in College and Career Expo
##RIVERDALE — Maygan Hooper's inflective voice and bright smile demonstrated her excitement for all things science-related. «News-Daily.com, Apr 14»
8
Gavin McInnes Mans Up
... butt and balls and you're done; to wearing flipflops, which should be punished by the force-feeding of said flip flops; to inflective upspeak. «Papermag, Mar 14»
9
Ophthalmic Pharmaceutical Drugs - Global Strategic Business Report
... after 2010 as patents of major products within ocular anti-allergic, anti-glaucoma, as well as anti-inflammatory/anti-inflective therapies expire. «PR Newswire, Dec 13»
10
Charlotte Green living childhood dream reading classified football …
His singsong cadence, with that inflective rise to denote the winning team, infiltrated its way into our collective consciousness to the point where ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 13»

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