unaccented
Not given stress
Unaccented describes a syllable or word that doesn't receive stress or emphasis in speech: The second syllable of "banana" is accented; the first and third are unaccented.
In music, unaccented notes fall on weak beats.
The word can also mean lacking a foreign accent: She spoke unaccented English.
Without rhythmic emphasis
- weakLacking power or force
- reducedMade less in amount
- schwaNeutral unstressed vowel
- syllableUnit of pronunciation
prosody · iambic · trochaic · anapestic · dactylic · scansion · elision · clitic
Not favoring any side
- flatLacking vertical variation
- monotoneSingle unvarying pitch
- evenUniform and level
- levelHorizontal or uniform position
uninflected · deadpan · toneless · measured · steady · uniform · expressionless · plain-spoken
Basic and unremarkable
- unmodifiedWithout any changes
- bareLacking any covering
- standardLevel of quality accepted
- basicFundamental in nature
simple · clean · neutral · orthographic · diacritical · tilde · umlaut · acute
unstressed
Without rhythmic emphasis
syllable · prosody · iambic · trochaic · anapestic · dactylic · scansion · elision · clitic · atonic
neutral
Not favoring any side
level · uninflected · deadpan · toneless · measured · steady · uniform · expressionless · plain-spoken · unmodulated
plain
Basic and unremarkable
- unmodifiedWithout any changes
- bareLacking any covering
- standardLevel of quality accepted
basic · simple · clean · neutral · orthographic · diacritical · tilde · umlaut · acute · grave
unaccentedaccented
Given stress or diacritics
stressed · emphasized · accentuated · tonic · prominent
accent, intensity, intensify, accents, accentuate, accented, intensified, accentuation, accenting