Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In philology, becoming again uninflected: applied to languages which have a tendency to lose or have already lost the use of inflections.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek back + belonging to case.

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Examples

  • n. - absence of sexual desire. anaphrodisiac, n. anaphroditic adj. - asexually produced. anaptotic adj.

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