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uninflected

uninflected

1 8.0
Speech that stays flat and shows little feeling
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnɪnˈflɛktɪd/
translation icon : monótono
  • He spoke rapidly, with an edge to his voice, but filtered through Hiroto, his opinion emerged in level, uninflected Japanese.
  • uninflected voice
  • uninflected tone
  • flat and uninflected

A forever of interior light, not retinal but spacious tenebrous light, uninflected by time or day or circumstance.

Examples

  • Adam carefully kept his tone uninflected.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Least said, soonest mended, that sort of thing? Her voice was even, uninflected, her eyes opaque with anger.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • His tone was completely uninflected.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • He must have practiced that uninflected expression in front of a mirror thousands of times before he got it right.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Her voice in the dark is uninflected without being flat; it's matter-of-fact the way a bell is matter-of-fact.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • In the hospitals and clinics of New York City, he encountered psychiatrists with names like Warner Graves and Loren St. John, men with silver-threaded hair and deep, uninflected voices and degrees from Amherst and Harvard.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • She delivered her speech in an uninflected manner, making it hard for the audience to engage.

  • The teacher spoke in an uninflected voice, which made it difficult for the students to determine her mood.

  • During the interview, he responded with uninflected answers, showing no emotion or enthusiasm.

Synonyms

inflectionless
vsuninflected
7.9

Said in a flat, boring voice with no rise or fall

adds unchanged grammatical form beyond mere prosodic monotony
unmodulated
vsuninflected
  • Specialized
8.3

A voice or sound that stays the same in pitch and volume

also includes unchanging grammatical form, not only sound monotony
accentless
vsuninflected
  • Specialized
7.3

A part of a word people do not pronounce with stress and say more softly than other parts

is broader, covering pitch monotony and unchanged grammatical form

Antonyms

varied
54 3.3

Containing many different kinds, not all the same

inflected
6.0

A voice that changes tone or pitch to show feeling

How Monotonous

monotone
2 5.8
uninflected
1 8.0
animated
30 3.7

Surface Forms

uninflected positive

Morphology

uninflected = inflected (transparent) = un + inflect + ed

Built by negating 'inflected' (inflect + -ed) with the productive prefix 'un-', giving the clear meaning 'not varied/altered'.

Etymology

Uninflected comes from un- 'not' and inflect meaning 'to bend' or 'change', the same idea you see in flex. So an uninflected voice or word is not 'bent' or changed in tone or form, which makes it sound flat or monotonous.