[syn: stressed, accented]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stressed
adj 1: suffering severe physical strain or distress; "he dropped
out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty
breathing" [syn: stressed, distressed]
2: bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in
`delay'" [syn: stressed, accented] [ant: unstressed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "stressed":
accented, accentuated, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial,
broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant,
consonantal, continuant, decided, dental, dissimilated, dorsal,
emphasized, emphatic, flat, forceful, forcible, front, glide,
glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, in red letters,
intonated, italicized, 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, pointed, positive, posttonic, punctuated,
retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, starred, stopped,
strong, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic,
twangy, unaccented, underlined, underscored, unrounded, unstressed,
velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak,
wide