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
- turnback
- turn back (or turn someone/thing back)
- turnbuckle
- Turnbull, Malcolm
- turncoat
- turncock
- turndown
- turner
- Turner, Frederick Jackson
- Turner, J. M. W.
- Turner, John
- Turner, Nat
- Turner's syndrome
- Turner, Ted
- Turner, Tina
- turnery
- turn heads
- turn in
- turning
- turning circle
- turning point
- turn in one's grave
- turn into
- turnip
- turnip greens