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Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, tomark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection. Inflective language(Philol.), a language like the Greek or Latin, consisting largely ofstems with variable terminations or suffixes which were onceindependent words. English is both agglutinative, as, manlike,headache, and inflective, as, he, his, him. Cf. Agglutinative.
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