uninflected

/ˈʌnənˌflɛktəd/
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Definitions of uninflected
  1. adjective
    not inflected
    “`boy' and `swim' are uninflected English words”
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    antonyms:
    inflected
    showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes)
  2. adjective
    (of the voice) not inflected
    “uninflected words”
    “monotonic uninflected speech”
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    inflected
    (of the voice) altered in tone or pitch
    modulated
    altered in volume as well as tone or pitch
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  3. adjective
    expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
    synonyms: analytic
    isolating
    relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles
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