inflective
inflective adjective: inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection.
Adjective
inflective (not comparable)
- Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection.
- Capable of, or relating to, inflection; deflecting.
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Origin of inflective
From inflect + -ive.
Words that rhyme with inflective
- projective
- subjective
- effective
- objective
- prospective
- reflective
- collective
- connective
- defective
- directive
- respective
- selective
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- injective
- detective
- elective
- irrespective
- perfective
- retrospective
- affective
- bijective
- corrective
- erective
- ineffective
- intellective
- intersubjective
- protective
- refective
- advective
- convective
- deflective
- ejective
- imperfective
- infective
- inspective
- introspective
- overprotective
- rejective
- surjective
- unreflective
- unselective
Questions about inflective
- What does inflective mean?
- Inflective means inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection.
- What part of speech is inflective?
- Inflective is an adjective.
Words near inflective in the dictionary
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