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• v  change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language
• v  vary the pitch of one's speech
• a  (of the voice) altered in tone or pitch
  his southern Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than her northern one
• a  showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes)
  `boys' and `swam' are inflected English words
  German is an inflected language

• Twenty-one Julys have come and gone since Buffett scored his only Top 10 single, Margaritaville, but every year Parrotheads across the country flock to hear his island-inflected .
• Guan spoke faster, his choppy, Chinese-inflected English making him hard to understand.
• Gone is the overly twee writing of Gopnik's memoir-inflected works (Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate), and in its place is a succint, convincing, and moving account .

• inflect
• tone
• modulate

• uninflected

News & Articles

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• Bob Thompson, composer of 'Space Age bachelor pad' music, dies at 88
  Bob Thompson, a composer and arranger who supplied swinging bachelors in the 1950s with sophisticated, jazz-inflected tunes that came to be known as "Space Age bachelor pad" music, died May 21 in Los Angeles at age 88.
  June 10, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in PlanetOut
  I must admit that I may have been inflected with society's prejudices and predilections and attribute them to God,Obama writes in his book. "My work with pastors and lay people deepened my resolve to lead a public life ? I had no community...
• Cornel West in The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
  West calls himself a "gut bucket blues-inflected Christian," reflecting a preacher side that is an important aspect of his identity.
• Nathan Glazer in Wall Street Journal
  I think his conservatism is clearly inflected by where he came from and how he came to it,Mr. Glazer said.