uninflected
IPA: ʌnɪnfɫˈɛktʌd
adjective
- (of a language) That which does not use inflection.
- (of a word) That which has not been inflected.
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Examples of "uninflected" in Sentences
- Somewhat by chance, English has become increasingly uninflected.
- The foreign language should be rendered in as rapid and uninflected a manner as possible, also without an accent.
- Levy and Richard Fleeshman power their way through an uninflected score: all peaks and pain and big ballads, all orgasm, no flirtation.
- Zero-marking appears in some other places in English: the plural of sheep is sheep, and the conjugated verb eat in I eat fish is indistinguishable from the uninflected infinitival form in I want to eat fish.
- This spare, uninflected work, sung by Ms. Van Eyck and Mr. Burdette, was almost too understated, its points about the ease of forgetting and the unreliability of photographs as a substitute for memory dissolving along with its music.
- It's these stories that offered a Raymond Carver engaged in his own kind of experimentation (how bare and uninflected can realism become while still maintaing our interest?), which as far as I can tell is mostly absent in the more elaborated but conventional Lish-less originals.
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