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Definition of Inflective
1. a. Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as, the inflective quality of the air.
Definition of Inflective
1. Adjective. That inflects ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inflective
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflective
Literary usage of Inflective
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Relation of synthetic and analytic forms. General character and course of inflective
development. THE last two lectures have given us a view of the Indo- ..."
2. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"... the standard for the form of the verb, and the inflective form, to render this
reference perceptible, must agree with the subject in number and person. ..."
3. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"I. The Parts of Speech and their inflective forms. A) The Noun. I. The Substantive.
It further serves to denote the notions of qualities, actions or beings, ..."
4. Language and Its Study, with Especial Reference to the Indo-European Family by William Dwight Whitney (1876)
"Boots, pronominal and verbal; their character as the historical germs of our
language ; development of inflective speech from them. ..."
5. Language and Its Study, with Especial Reference to the Indo-European Family by William Dwight Whitney, Richard Morris (1880)
"Roots, pronominal and verbal; their character as the historical germs of our
language ; development of inflective speech from them. ..."
6. Society Gymnastics and Voice Culture: Adapted from the Delsarte System by Genevieve Stebbins (1888)
"The inflective Chart of Gesture. Imagine traced in the air before you a circle
divided into eight equal parts by four straight lines drawn through the ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Outside the Semitic, at any rate, one should not speak of inflective and
non-inflective languages, but only of languages more inflective and less inflective ..."
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