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inflect
[ in-flekt ]
verb (used with object)
- to alter, adapt, or modulate (the voice).
- to alter or adapt in tone or character: jazz-inflected music.
the power of storytelling inflected through a feminist sensibility;
jazz-inflected music.
- Grammar.
- to apply inflection to (a word).
- to recite or display all or a distinct set of the inflections of (a word); decline or conjugate.
- to bend; turn from a direct line or course.
- Botany. to bend in.
verb (used without object)
- Grammar. to be characterized by inflection.
inflect
/ ɪnˈflɛkt /
verb
- grammar to change (the form of a word) or (of a word) to change in form by inflection
- tr to change (the voice) in tone or pitch; modulate
- tr to cause to deviate from a straight or normal line or course; bend
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Derived Forms
- inˈflectedness, noun
- inˈflector, noun
- inˈflective, adjective
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Other Words From
- in·flected·ness noun
- in·flective adjective
- in·flector noun
- nonin·flected adjective
- unin·flected adjective
- unin·flective adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of inflect1
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Example Sentences
Now it would have been absurd to inflect a long English lesson.
(e) To memorize words and to learn to inflect them, before memorizing and learning how to construct sentences.
And we yet retain an objective case of the pronoun, and inflect it for person, number and gender.
Can you so inflect "sprawling in want" and "sitting high" as to suggest a swamp and a mountain-top, or a frog and an angel?
Query to the class: How did the lady inflect the word Yes to call forth the injunction, Read it again?
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