Inflected

Word INFLECTED
Character 9
Hyphenation in flect ed
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Inflected"

What do we mean by inflected?

To cause to curve inwards.

To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.

(grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.

(grammar, of a word) To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.

To influence in style.

When someone, in an effort to seem like they care, pronounces your name differently every time you see each other to deflect from the fact you have nothing to talk about or are too busy to remember anything about this person Urban Dictionary

To receive from outside influence a need to fix problems of a mutually desirable outcome. Urban Dictionary

Calculus: A point at which the concavity of a mathematical function changes. Points of inflection occur where the second derivative f''(x)=0, and where f'''(x) doesn't =0. Urban Dictionary

When someone isn’t British but acts and sounds British to the point they are mistaken to be British. Usually not being from British descent they just naturally come off as if they were born there. Urban Dictionary

When you mistakenly use the wrong inflection at the end of a sentence, resulting in confusion from both the listening and speaking parties Urban Dictionary

When, proverbially speaking, shit hits the fan, especially when one is talking about the us house ofrepresentatives. Urban Dictionary

What unique English teachers call it when your voice goes up at the end of a sentence that wasn’t a question. Urban Dictionary

You type this in brackets when you say something that could be misinterpreted in textual form so as not to cause undue offence to people. By putting this after phrases, you can easily banter someone on WhatsApp etc without them having a strop cos you think they're really digging you out. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Inflected

The word "inflected" in example sentences

Decriminalization of small amounts of drugs are indicators that perhaps an awakening of the human condition will start removing the insanity or beliefs that the pain inflected by punishment will in someway cause our resistance to drug usage to increase, where in fact history (prohibition) and more, has proven the opposite. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even in Spanish-inflected English it sounds like an episode of TNT's "Inside the NBA." ❋ Unknown (2008)

PARTICLE -- One of the minor parts of speech not inflected, that is, not undergoing changes in form. ❋ Unknown (1900)

Finger's style falls flat, though, when it veers too close to the depersonalizing kind of political correctness that she's trying to avoid (the exchange between Gramsci and Luxemburg has the didacticism of a public service announcement) or when it settles for the easy laugh (a psychiatrist predictably mispronouncing Vincent's last name, or the stale joke of contemporary slang inflected with archaic speech in ❋ Unknown (2010)

Speakers then often had the choice of using inflected forms or dropping them. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

Beowulf was composed in the highly inflected English of this period. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

The language was far more inflected than even the most grammatically conservative English is today.1 ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

Frank: "[Benjamin] (BEN [juh] men), what's new?" Benjamin: "Well I'm getting married in a month." Frank: "NO WAY MAN! CONGRATULATIONS!" - 1 month later - Frank: "So Benjamin (ben juh MEN), how's life?" Benjamin: "Great. I got married Saturday." Frank: "NO WAY MAN! WHY DIDN'T [YOU TELL ME]?!" Benjamin: "I did and your inflection deflection isn't helping." ❋ I'mTotallyNotDave (2010)

[The Holy Spirit] is the ultimate source of inflection because all he does is fix [God's] mistakes from only doing Good when there is a PERFECT universe he is [not Good enough] to Join by himself alone. ❋ Hellsprung (2017)

OF COURSE this is [urban slang]. "[Whazzap] wit da point of inflection, [biatch]?" ❋ Aaronak (2005)

“They have a British inflection [despite] being from [Australia]” ❋ Numulic (2023)

Guy 1: man that [cheeseburger] was [tasty] as hell?? Guy 2: wtf did you just say dude Guy 1: sorry man serious case of [inflection confusion] ❋ Bones4436 (2009)

If [you don't know] what a [point of inflection] is, look at [the 2018 us midterms], when the squad was born. ❋ Sexydimma (2021)

Oh, [Ethan] you used Pumpkin Spice Latte Inflection again. *[Snickers], then Says* [I would] like a Large one this time. ❋ AD/Strength/Special Teams (2019)

[Drew], you are such an [absolute gimp] [inflection klaxon] ❋ BigJM (2021)

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