| ADJECTIVE | all | uninflected | (of the voice) not inflected |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | uninflected | not inflected | |
| all | uninflected, analytic | expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection |
| Meaning | (of the voice) not inflected. | |
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| Opposite | inflected | (of the voice) altered in tone or pitch |
| Spanish | sin inflexión | |
| Meaning | not inflected. | |
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| Example | "'boy' and 'swim' are uninflected English words" | |
| Category | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
| Opposite | inflected | showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes) |
| Spanish | sin inflexión | |
| Meaning | Expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection. | |
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| Synonym | analytic | |
| Category | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
| Narrower | isolating | relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles |
| Opposite | synthetic | Systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words |
| Spanish | analítico | |
| Catalan | analític | |
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