inflectionless
- adjective
- /ɪnˈflɛkʃənləs/
:
monótono
- The teacher's lecture was so inflectionless that many students struggled to stay awake.
Examples
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The automated voice on the phone was inflectionless, making it hard to pay attention.
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His voice is flat, inflectionless.
Fiction book (1990) -
She found his inflectionless reading of the poem to be quite boring.
Synonyms
4
5.3
A voice or sound that stays on one tone and does not change
1
6.3
A flat voice that shows no emotion
1
8.1
A voice that keeps the same pitch and tone
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8.0
Speech that stays flat and shows little feeling
A voice or sound that stays in the same pitch without change
A surface that shows no gradual change in color or light and looks flat
Antonyms
How Monotonous
Surface Forms
Morphology
inflectionless = inflection (semi-transparent) = inflection + less
Formationally regular ('inflection' + '-less'), but this sense relies on 'inflection' meaning 'variation in pitch/intonation', which may be less familiar to some learners who know only the grammatical sense.
Etymology
Inflectionless comes from the parts in- 'not' and flect 'to bend', the same root as flex ('bend'). So when we talk about speech, it describes a voice that does not 'bend' in pitch or tone and therefore sounds flat or monotonous.