INFLECTED

inflected

(adjective) showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes); “‘boys’ and ‘swam’ are inflected English words”; “German is an inflected language”

inflected

(adjective) (of the voice) altered in tone or pitch; “his southern Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than her northern one”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

inflected (comparative more inflected, superlative most inflected)

Deviating from a straight line.

(grammar) Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word).

(linguistics) Having inflected word forms; fusional.

(botany) bent or curved inward or downward

Verb

inflected

simple past tense and past participle of inflect

Anagrams

• deflectin

Source: Wiktionary

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In*flect"ed, a.

1. Bent; turned; deflected.

2. (Gram.)

Definition: Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective. Inflected cycloid (Geom.), a prolate cycloid. See Cycloid.

INFLECT

In*flect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflecting.] Etym: [L. inflectere, inflexum; pref. in.- in + flectere to bend. See Flexibl, and cf. Inflex.]

1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle Sir I. Newton.

2. (Gram.)

Definition: To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.

3. To modulate, as the voice.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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