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flectionless

flectionless is the alternative spelling of flexionless.

Meaning of flexionless

Adjective

flexionless (not comparable)

  1. (dated) inflectionless
    • [S]ome scholars have inclined to the view that the mixing of Scandinavian dialects and those of the Anglo-Saxons produced a kind of creolized (flexionless) English as the two sets of people sought to understand each other by ignoring inflexions[.]1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 2

Origin of flectionless

From flection + -less.

Questions about flectionless

What is flectionless the alternative spelling of?
Flectionless is the alternative spelling of flexionless.

Words near flectionless in the dictionary

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

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