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indecl.

indecl. is the abbreviation of indeclinable.

Meaning of indeclinable

Adjective

indeclinable (not comparable)

  1. That one cannot decline; unavoidable.
    • He'd planned to work a double shift Friday night, but Gladys Silverman's indeclinable invitation threw a hefty wrench into David's plans.1994, Helen R. Myers, To Wed at Christmas, page 101
  2. Not grammatically declinable; having no inflections.

See all 3 meanings of indeclinable

Questions about indecl.

What is indecl. the abbreviation of?
Indecl. is the abbreviation of indeclinable.

Words near indecl. in the dictionary

  1. indecisions
  2. indecisive
  3. indecisively
  4. indecisiveness
  5. indecisivenesses
  6. indecl.
  7. indeclarable
  8. indeclension
  9. indeclinability
  10. indeclinable
  11. indeclinableness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: indecl. (page history and authors); indeclinable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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