Meaning | not bearing a stress or accent. | |
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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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