inflect
verb/ɪnˈflɛkt/
Etymology From Latin īnflectō, from in- (“in”) + flectō (“to bend”).
1
To cause to curve inwards.
2
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
- The actress has a great skill of being able to inflect her voice to any situation.
3
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
4
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of a word To be varied in the form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
- In Latin, adjectives and nouns inflect a lot, but inflection is minimally found in Modern English.
- Synonyms
- inbend
- Derived terms
- inflectable, inflection, inflective, inflexion, misinflect, noninflecting