flexionless

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English

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Etymology

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From flexion +‎ -less.

Adjective

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flexionless (not comparable)

  1. (grammar, dated) inflectionless
    • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 2:
      [S]ome scholars have inclined to the view that the mixing of Scandinavian dialects and those of the Anglo-Saxons produced a kind of creolized (flexionless) English as the two sets of people sought to understand each other by ignoring inflexions[.]