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• a  relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections
• a  of or characterized by syncretism

• Many of the independent churches are openly syncretistic, putting the merest Christian overlay upon witchcraft, sorcery and ancestor worship.
• Neither Catholic fish nor Protestant fowl, "Father" Kreinheder represents a syncretistic mishmash equally offensive to both.
• Though an uncompromising enemy of the syncretistic idea that what mankind needs is a new religion combining the best features of all the old ones, Hutchinson reminds readers that .

• syncretic
• syncretical
• syncretistical

Quotes

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• Os Guinness in Associated Baptist Press
  As for a lack of specificity about what the statement means when it extols "civility," Guinness said it should "not be confused with niceness, etiquette or squeamishness about differences, and it is most certainly not a recipe for any syncretistic...