| English Dictionary |
INFLECTIONAL
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
Dictionary entry overview: What does inflectional mean?
• INFLECTIONAL (adjective)
The adjective INFLECTIONAL has 1 sense:
1. characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions
Familiarity information: INFLECTIONAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions
Context example:
inflectional morphology is used to indicate number and case and tense and person etc.
Antonym:
derivational (characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base)
Derivation:
inflection (a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"As you sow, so shall you reap." (English proverb)
"A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass." (Native American proverb, Sioux)
"If talk is silver then silence is gold." (Arabic proverb)
"Hasty speed is rarely good" (Dutch proverb)
"A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass." (Native American proverb, Sioux)
"If talk is silver then silence is gold." (Arabic proverb)
"Hasty speed is rarely good" (Dutch proverb)