Unaccented

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having no diacritical mark. Used of a word, syllable, or letter.
  • adj. Having weak stress or no stress, as in pronunciation or metrical rhythm.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of a word, having no diacritical mark; accentless.
  • adj. Of a vowel or syllable, pronounced with no, or little stress.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not accented; in music, receiving only a relatively slight rhythmical emphasis: used both of beats, pulses, or parts of measures, and of tones or notes that occur on such beats or parts.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
  • adj. used of syllables
  • Equivalent
    unstressed   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    atonic    unstressed    toneless    weak   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    unstressed    palatal    apsidal    obsolescent    penultimate