syncretic
- a relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections
modern English is a syncretic language - a of or characterized by syncretism
- As is typical of the syncretic Catholicism of Latin America and the Caribbean, in Venezuela the faith openly accommodates non-Christian symbols and beliefs.
- There, as elsewhere in the States, rock is currently in the midst of a huge syncretic surge toward a new idiomand the Beatles' wildly eclectic spirit hovers over it all.
- While much of Indonesian Islam is syncretic, mixing traditional local beliefs with the imported faith, Aceh's belief system is generally far closer to the orthodox form practiced .