Word Meanings - FLECTIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection. A flectional word is a phrase in the bud. Earle.

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• FLECTIONAL
  Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection. A flectional word is a phrase in the bud. Earle.
• EARLET
  An earring. The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. Judg. viii. 24
• INFLECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection. Max Müller.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PHRASEOLOGIST
  A collector or coiner of phrases.
• FLECTION
  1. The act of bending, or state of being bent. 2. The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.
• PHRASELESS
  Indescribable. Shak.
• INFLECTION
  The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc. Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice. A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting. (more
• CAPABLENESS
  The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.
• EARLES PENNY
  Earnest money. Same as Arles penny.
• PHRASEOGRAM
  A symbol for a phrase.
• PHRASEOLOGY
  1. Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style. Most completely national in his . . . phraseology. I. Taylor. 2. A collection of phrases; a phrase book. Syn. -- Diction; style. See Diction.
• PHRASE
  A short clause or portion of a period. Note: A composition consists first of sentences, or periods; these are subdivided into sections, and these into phrases. Phrase book, a book of idiomatic phrases. J. S. Blackie. (more info) 1. A
• CAPABLE
  1. Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior. 2.
• EARLESS
  Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear. Pope.
• PHRASEOLOGIC; PHRASEOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words. "This verbal or phraseological answer." Bp. Pearson.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• OVERCAPABLE
  Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.
• CIRCUMFLECTION
  See CIRCUMFLEXION
• PERIPHRASE
  The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. "To describe by enigmatic periphrases." De Quincey.
• METAPHRASE
  paraphrase; meta` beyond, over + fra`zein to speak: cf. F. 1. A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden. 2. An answering phrase; repartee. Mrs. Browning.
• FEARLESS
  Free from fear. Syn. -- Bold; courageous; interpid; valor -- Fear"less*ly, adv. -- Fera"less*ness, n.
• PARAPHRASER
  One who paraphrases.
• METAPHRASED
  Translated literally.
• REFLECTION
  The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex. Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of light, on leaving a reflecting surface,
• PARAPHRASE
  A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation
• DEFLECTIONIZE
  To free from inflections. Deflectionized languages are said to be analytic. Earle.