Accentual

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Accentual \Ac*cen"tu*al\, a.
     Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by
     accent.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  accentual
       adj 1: of or pertaining to accent or stress
       2: (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather
          than syllables or quantity; "accentual poetry is based on
          the number of stresses in a line"; "accentual rhythm"
          [ant: {quantitative}, {syllabic}]