inflectional suffix

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsinflectional ending

   Broaderending

Questions about inflectional suffix

What does inflectional suffix mean?

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

What is another word for inflectional suffix?

Close synonyms include inflectional ending. 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 suffix a common word?

inflectional suffix 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.