inflected

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. (of the voice) altered in tone or pitch“his southern Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than her northern one”
  2. showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes)“`boys' and `swam' are inflected English words”“German is an inflected language”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Inflected \In*flect"ed\, a.

1.Bent; turned; deflected. [1913 Webster]

2.(Gram.) Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective. [1913 Webster]

Inflected cycloid (Geom.), a prolate cycloid. See Cycloid. [1913 Webster]

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

1.To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. [1913 Webster]

Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle ?— Sir I. Newton.[1913 Webster]

2.(Gram.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb. [1913 Webster]

3.To modulate, as the voice. [1913 Webster]

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