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flexionless

flexionless adjective: inflectionless.

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

Forms of flexionless

alternative formflectionless

Origin of flexionless

From flexion + -less.

Questions about flexionless

What does flexionless mean?
Flexionless means inflectionless.
What part of speech is flexionless?
Flexionless is an adjective.

Words near flexionless in the dictionary

  1. flexing out
  2. flexing up
  3. flexings
  4. flexion
  5. flexional
  6. flexionless
  7. flexions
  8. flexious
  9. flexirubin
  10. flexis
  11. flexisexual

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