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  • adjective of a language That does not use inflection.
  • adjective of a word That has not been inflected.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of the voice) not inflected
  • adjective expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
  • adjective not inflected

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Examples

  • Somewhat by chance, English has become increasingly uninflected.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Somewhat by chance, English has become increasingly uninflected.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • It's these stories that offered a Raymond Carver engaged in his own kind of experimentation (how bare and uninflected can realism become while still maintaing our interest?), which as far as I can tell is mostly absent in the more elaborated but conventional Lish-less originals.

    Writing and Publishing 2010

  • The foreign language should be rendered in as rapid and uninflected a manner as possible, also without an accent.

    George Heymont: Strangers in Strange Lands George Heymont 2011

  • This spare, uninflected work, sung by Ms. Van Eyck and Mr. Burdette, was almost too understated, its points about the ease of forgetting and the unreliability of photographs as a substitute for memory dissolving along with its music.

    Writing Death's Gentle Aria in the Face of Despair 2011

  • Zero-marking appears in some other places in English: the plural of sheep is sheep, and the conjugated verb eat in I eat fish is indistinguishable from the uninflected infinitival form in I want to eat fish.

    Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • The foreign language should be rendered in as rapid and uninflected a manner as possible, also without an accent.

    George Heymont: Strangers in Strange Lands George Heymont 2011

  • Zero-marking appears in some other places in English: the plural of sheep is sheep, and the conjugated verb eat in I eat fish is indistinguishable from the uninflected infinitival form in I want to eat fish.

    2009 October « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • The foreign language should be rendered in as rapid and uninflected a manner as possible, also without an accent.

    George Heymont: Strangers in Strange Lands George Heymont 2011

  • Levy and Richard Fleeshman power their way through an uninflected score: all peaks and pain and big ballads, all orgasm, no flirtation.

    A Woman Killed with Kindness; Loyalty; Ghost – review 2011

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