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Unaccented

adjective

Used of syllables. Synonym: atonic.

(used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress. Synonyms: light, weak. "A weak stress on the second syllable"

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"Unaccented" Quotes from Famous Books

... return is simply a relaxation or a subsidence, and belongs, therefore, to the department of rest. Discourse itself, it will be observed, has its pauses, seasons of repose thickly interspersed in the action of speech; and besides these has its accented and unaccented syllables, emphatic and unemphatic words,—illustrating thus in itself the law which it here affirms. History is full of the same thing; the tides of faith and feeling now ascend and now subside, through all the ages, in ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 43, May, 1861 • Various

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... In listening to a clock it is impossible to think of the ticks singly, or otherwise than in groups of two: an accented beat and an unaccented; although the beats are of equal strength and duration. This principle of dual balance is derived from the rhythmic pulsation of the human heart and, as we shall see, runs through ...

— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding

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Words linked to "Unaccented" : atonic, tonic, unstressed, light