[syn: unaccented, light, weak]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Unaccented \Unaccented\
See accented.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
unaccented
adj 1: used of syllables; "an atonic syllable carries no stress"
[syn: atonic, unaccented] [ant: accented, tonic]
2: (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:
unaccented, light, weak]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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