inflective

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inflective - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Inflective \In*flect"ive\, a.
     1. Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as,
        the inflective quality of the air. --Derham.
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     2. (Gram.) Inflectional; characterized by variation, or
        change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to
        inflection.
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     Inflective language (Philol.), a language like the Greek or
        Latin, consisting largely of stems with variable
        terminations or suffixes which were once independent
        words. English is both agglutinative, as, manlike,
        headache, and inflective, as, he, his, him. Cf.
        Agglutinative.
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