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Inflectional

Inflectional \In*flec"tion*al\, a. Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection.
--Max M["u]ller.

Wiktionary
inflectional

a. 1 Of or pertaining to inflection. 2 (context mathematics English) Of or pertaining to a point of inflection of a curve. alt. 1 Of or pertaining to inflection. 2 (context mathematics English) Of or pertaining to a point of inflection of a curve.

WordNet
inflectional
  1. adj. characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions; "inflectional morphology is used to indicate number and case and tense and person etc." [ant: derivational]

  2. expressing grammatical relations by means of affixes or changes in vowels or consonants

Usage examples of "inflectional".

But when the inflectional form of language became so far advanced as to have its scholars and grammarians, they seem to have united in extirpating all such polysynthetical or polysyllabic monsters, as devouring invaders of the aboriginal forms.

An uninflected Quenya word typically has two or three syllables, and this number is often increased by adding inflectional endings, or by compounding.

No inflectional endings are included in the Quenya-English list, but pronominal endings are included in the English-Quenya list below.

There was no evidence that the Cora were aware of the inflectional subtexts of spoken words—but RyRelee did not dare chance accusing his masters of either ruthlessness or stupidity.