syncretic (adj.)

  1. relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections; modern English is a syncretic language

    [ Syn: syncretical , syncretistic , syncretistical ]

  2. of or characterized by syncretism

    [ Syn: syncretical , syncretistic , syncretistical ]

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