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Inflective
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What's The Definition Of Inflective?Synonyms | Synonyms for Inflective: Related Terms | Find terms related to Inflective: See Also | Inflective In Webster's Dictionary \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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