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inflectionless

inflectionless adjective: without inflection.

Adjective

inflectionless (not comparable)

  1. Without inflection.
    • The dry voice behind the door started up again, a strange, breathy, scratched monotone, like one of those old gramophone records of inflectionless writers reading their own prose.2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 261

Synonyms of inflectionless

Origin of inflectionless

From inflection + -less.

Words formed from inflectionless

Questions about inflectionless

What does inflectionless mean?
Inflectionless means without inflection.
What part of speech is inflectionless?
Inflectionless is an adjective.

Words near inflectionless in the dictionary

  1. inflectional phrases
  2. inflectional suffix
  3. inflectional tangent
  4. inflectional tangents
  5. inflectionally
  6. inflectionless
  7. inflectionlessness
  8. inflections
  9. inflective
  10. inflector
  11. inflectors

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