Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In philology, becoming again uninflected: applied to languages which have a tendency to lose or have already lost the use of inflections.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having lost, or tending to lose,
inflections byphonetic decay .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek back + belonging to case.
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Examples
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n. - absence of sexual desire. anaphrodisiac, n. anaphroditic adj. - asexually produced. anaptotic adj.
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