inflectional ending

1. 1.

   an inflection that is added at the end of a root word

   Synonymsinflectional suffix

   Broaderending

Questions about inflectional ending

What does inflectional ending mean?

inflectional ending means "an inflection that is added at the end of a root word".

What is another word for inflectional ending?

Close synonyms include inflectional suffix. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inflectional ending a common word?

inflectional ending 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.