inflectional

1. 1.

   characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions

   “inflectional morphology is used to indicate number and case and tense and person etc.”

   Antonymsderivational

Questions about inflectional

What does inflectional mean?

inflectional means "characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions".

How many syllables are in inflectional?

inflectional has 5 syllables and divides as in-flec-ti-o-nal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of inflectional?

The recorded antonyms are derivational.

Is inflectional a common word?

inflectional is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.