Meanings
- not comparableThat does not use inflection.
- not comparableThat has not been inflected.
It seems that many such technical words (grada, minuta, introitus) were left in the uninflected state when contracted in any customary form such as we have […]
1955: Geoffrey Chaucer, Richard Middlewood Wilson, Simon Bredon, Derek John de Solla Price, and Peterhouse (University of Cambridge) Library, The Equatorie of the Planetis, page 161 (Cambridge University Press)
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of the voice) not inflected
adjectivenot inflected
adjectiveexpressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishinflected
- Englishuninflected
Translations
Czech neohebný
- neohebnýof a word
Dutch onverbogen
- onverbogenof a word
Greek άκλιτος
- άκλιτος (áklitos)of a word
Hungarian ragozatlan
- ragozatlanof a word
Polish nieodmienny, nieodmienny
- nieodmiennyof a language
- nieodmiennyof a word
Cite this entry
uninflected. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninflected
“uninflected.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninflected. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uninflected,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninflected.
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