\In*flect"ive\, a.
1. Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as,
   the inflective quality of the air. --Derham.
2. (Gram.) Inflectional; characterized by variation, or
   change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to
   inflection.
{Inflective language} (Philol.), a language like the Greek or
   Latin, consisting largely of stems with variable
   terminations or suffixes which were once independent
   words. English is both agglutinative, as, manlike,
   headache, and inflective, as, he, his, him. Cf.
   {Agglutinative}.