Unstressed

Word UNSTRESSED
Character 10
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ʌnˈstɹɛst/

Definitions and meanings of "Unstressed"

What do we mean by unstressed?

Not stressed or accented. adjective

Not exposed or subjected to stress. adjective

Not pronounced with stress, as a vowel; unaccented.

Not stressed or accentuated adjective

Not subject to stress adjective

Not bearing a stress or accent adjective

(of a vowel) not stressed or accentuated

Not subject to stress

Synonyms and Antonyms for Unstressed

The word "unstressed" in example sentences

Gabe dw: I only have a weak separation between [ɪ] and [ə] in unstressed syllables, so have trouble telling them apart. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Easy winters and plentiful food result in unstressed bucks that tend to hold antlers longer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Mortality" contains 14 four-line stanzas of anapestic tetrameter, meaning that it advances in four beats of three syllables, two unstressed and one stressed. ❋ John J. Miller (2012)

Unlike English, which usually reduces unstressed vowels to "uh", Spanish pronounces all vowels, stressed or not, very clearly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Thames would remain an "off-stage presence", unstressed, vital to the city's sense of itself. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I have to admit that congressperson has always sounded very strange to me, so I still do occasionally use congressman in generic cases, but I do so with a very unstressed final syllable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have the World Cup jersey, I have the Belgium jersey, so I can go unstressed to worlds. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What's new about "Midnight in Paris"—about its cheerful shallows along with its unstressed depths—is the lovely unseriousness of the whole venture. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

And, as a corollory, prepositional verbs simply follow the (unstressed) preposition pattern: ❋ Unknown (2010)

Who knew, for instance, that iambs an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one make feminine-sounding names, such as Chanel, while the reverse—called a trochee—has the masculine sound of Black & Decker? ❋ Daniel Akst (2011)

I suspect this is because it has the exact same metrical structure as eight of the past nine years (even 2007, the lone exception, differs only in adding an unstressed syllable to the end). ❋ Unknown (2010)

If man is a stressed syllable, the word feels less neutral than if man is an unstressed syllable (spokesMAN vs. SPOKESman). ❋ Unknown (2010)

At 9: 47, my friend entered the restaurant, apologizing profusely but looking strikingly unstressed. ❋ Elizabeth Bernstein (2010)

After famously going from God to Judas in the space of a few months at Burnley last season, now that Coyle has steadied Bolton's ship he seems among the most secure and unstressed of Premier League managers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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