uninflected
/ʌnɪnˈflɛktɪd
/adjective
1 Grammar (Of a word or a language) not undergoing changes to express particular grammatical functions or attributes: English is largely uninflected...
- That's something you can't do in an uninflected language like English.
- Eventually, Misa corrected herself and stopped using uninflected verbs in the [I'm + X] pattern.
- The call-and-response dynamic in this scene allows discrete space for dialect and uninflected speech, but clearly emphasizes the mingling of the two voices in a communal speech act.
2Not varying in intonation or pitch: her voice was flat and uninflected...
- The bloody sergeant's report is delivered by Dan Moran on his back in a kind of machine-made monotone so uninflected that the ear refuses to digest it.
- Well, let me tell ya, there isn't anything quite like hearing that robot talk in its flat uninflected voice to wake me from my melancholy disposition.
- But Julie, in her uninflected implacability, belongs less to Hitchcock than to Robert Bresson, the great French minimalist.
Rhymes
- Rydberg constant
- Rydberg correction
- Rydberg formula
- Rydberg's formula
- Rydberg unit
- rydder
- Ryder, Albert Pinkham
- Ryder Cup
- Ryder, Sue
- rye
- rye and Indian
- rye and Indian bread
- rye and Injun
- rye and Injun bread
- rye bread
- rye brome
- ryebuck
- ryebuck shearer
- rye coffee
- rye dough
- rye flour
- ryegrass
- rye land
- Ryeland
- rye meal