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What is the adjective for inflectedness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs inflect and inflex which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

inflected
  1. Deviating from a straight line.
  2. (grammar) Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word).
  3. (linguistics) Having inflected word forms.
  4. (botany) bent or curved inward or downward
inflexible
  1. Not flexible; not capable of bending or being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.
  2. Not willing to change, e.g. one's opinion or habits; obstinate; stubborn; resolute; determined.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “A high reading suggests that a patient has stiff, inflexible arteries, Klassen says.”
      “Here is a man who counts it a virtue to be inflexible and to hold firm in the face of changing circumstances.”
      “The law is a fluid process of everchanging ideas, not an inflexible system where right and wrong remain the same.”
inflective
  1. (grammar) Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection.
  2. Capable of, or relating to, inflection; deflecting.
  3. Examples:
    1. “He has a majestic voice that is supple and inflective while still being just a bit gritty.”
      “The mere fact of fusion does not seem to satisfy us as a clear indication of the inflective process.”
      “We can call such languages inflective, if we like, but we must then be prepared to revise radically our notion of inflective form.”
inflectional
  1. (grammar) Of or pertaining to inflection.
  2. (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a point of inflection of a curve.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The structure of Old English was more like Latin in that words had various inflectional endings to indicate their grammatical function.”
      “Of the five inflectional cases which are commonly ascribed to the Old English noun, the instrumental is the one least obvious.”
      “French has inflectional morphology to indicate plurality, person, number, and tense, so inflection is not a foreign concept.”
inflexive
  1. inflective
  2. (obsolete) inflexible
inflexional
  1. Alternative spelling of inflectional
inflectionless
  1. Without inflection.
inflectable
  1. (linguistics) That can be inflected.
inflexionless
  1. Without inflexion.
inflexed
  1. (botany) inflected
  2. Examples:
    1. “The new leaves have an inflexed ptyxis and young leaves appear to be rolled up at the tip.”
      “If a specimen has a slightly inflexed pedicel, however, other characters must be considered carefully before a clear identification can be made.”
      “Microsania departs from all empid genera in possessing a large and inflexed hypopygium and a single median row of acrostichal hairs.”
inflecting
inflexing
  1. present participle of inflex
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