unstressed
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| —adj | |
| 1. | carrying relatively little stress; unemphasized |
| 2. | phonetics of, relating to, or denoting the weakest accent in a word or breath group, which in some languages, such as English or German, is also associated with a reduction in vowel quality to a centralized (i) or (a) |
| 3. | prosody (of a syllable in verse) having no stress or accent |
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Unstressed
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
Example sentences
He recently found that stressed rats have a stronger, more immediate immune response than unstressed animals.
For example, in various parts of the region they tend not to turn vowels in unstressed syllables into neutral vowels.
Past and present, sharply separated by the chapter structure, are fused in motifs and unstressed parallels.
Explain that iambic meter refers to accentual feet of an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.
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