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flectional

flectional adjective: pertaining to flection; serving to bend or vary, specifically, pertaining to the terminal variation of words; inflectional.

Adjective

flectional (comparative more flectional, superlative most flectional)

  1. Pertaining to flection; serving to bend or vary, specifically, pertaining to the terminal variation of words; inflectional.

Forms of flectional

comparativemore flectional
superlativemost flectional
alternative form (dated)flexional

Origin of flectional

From flection + -al.

Questions about flectional

What does flectional mean?
Flectional means pertaining to flection; serving to bend or vary, specifically, pertaining to the terminal variation of words; inflectional.
What part of speech is flectional?
Flectional is an adjective.

Words near flectional in the dictionary

  1. flecky
  2. flecnodal
  3. flecnode
  4. flecnodes
  5. flection
  6. flectional
  7. flectionless
  8. flections
  9. flectopodia
  10. flectopodium
  11. flector

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