unstressed

unstressed
Synonyms and related words:
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, unaccented, unrounded, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

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  • unstressed — ► ADJECTIVE 1) Phonetics (of a syllable) not pronounced with stress. 2) not subjected to stress …   English terms dictionary

  • unstressed — [spelling only] …   English World dictionary

  • unstressed — adjective Date: 1883 1. not bearing a stress or accent < unstressed syllables > 2. not subjected to stress < unstressed wires > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • unstressed — [[t]ʌ̱nstre̱st[/t]] ADJ If a word or syllable is unstressed, it is pronounced without emphasis. [TECHNICAL] ...the unstressed syllable of words like above , surround or arrive . Ant: stressed …   English dictionary

  • unstressed — /un strest /, adj. 1. without stress or emphasis, as a syllable in a word. 2. not receiving or subjected to stress, wear, etc.: the unstressed parts of a car body. [1880 85; UN 1 + STRESS + ED2] * * * …   Universalium

  • unstressed — adj. Unstressed is used with these nouns: ↑syllable, ↑vowel …   Collocations dictionary

  • unstressed — un|stressed [ˌʌnˈstrest] adj an unstressed word or part of a word is pronounced with less force than other ones …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • unstressed — un|stressed [ ʌn strest ] adjective an unstressed word or SYLLABLE (=part of a word) is pronounced more quietly or with less force than other words or syllables …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • unstressed — UK [ʌnˈstrest] / US adjective linguistics an unstressed word or syllable (= part of a word) is pronounced more quietly or with less force than other words or syllables …   English dictionary

  • unstressed state — neįtemptoji būsena statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. unstrained state; unstressed state vok. unverspannter Zustand, m rus. ненапряжённое состояние, n pranc. état de non contrainte, m; état sans contrainte, m …   Fizikos terminų žodynas

  • unstressed — См. disaccentato …   Пятиязычный словарь лингвистических терминов

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