| Meaning | not bearing a stress or accent. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "short vowels are unstressed" | |
| Narrower | feminine | (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable |
| unaccented, light, weak | (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | |
| unemphatic | not emphasized | |
| Opposite | stressed, accented | bearing a stress or accent |
| Spanish | átono | |
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