adjective
- not changed in form to show grammatical relationships such as tense, number, or case
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- English adverbs like ‘quickly’ are uninflected words.
- The word ‘sheep’ is uninflected for number in English.
- Chinese has many uninflected words compared to Latin.
- Prepositions in English are typically uninflected.
- The uninflected form of a verb is its base form.
- Some languages have more uninflected words than others.