Unaccented

3 definitions found

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

  Unaccented \Unaccented\
     See {accented}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unaccented


       adj 1: used of syllables; "an atonic syllable carries no stress"
              [syn: {atonic}] [ant: {tonic}]
       2: not bearing a stress or accent; "short vowels are
          unstressed" [syn: {unstressed}] [ant: {stressed}]
       3: used of vowels or syllables; pronounced with little or no
          stress; "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light
          syllable"; "a weak stress on the second syllable" [syn: {light},
           {weak}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "unaccented":
     accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
     articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad,
     cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant,
     consonantal, continuant, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front,
     glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated,
     labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual,
     liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized,
     occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal,
     pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched,
     posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stopped,
     stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal,
     tonic, twangy, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid,
     voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide