Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having no diacritical mark. Used of a word, syllable, or letter.
- adj. Having weak stress or no stress, as in pronunciation or metrical rhythm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not accented; in music, receiving only a relatively slight rhythmical emphasis: used both of beats, pulses, or parts of measures, and of tones or notes that occur on such beats or parts.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of a word, having no diacritical mark; accentless.
- adj. Of a vowel or syllable, pronounced with no, or little stress.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- adj. used of syllables
Etymologies
- un- + accented (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The time-travel scenes are unconvincing: Will runs into a Viking who speaks by grunting noncommittally and runs into some seventeenth-century Brits who speak in unaccented modern English.”
“When Fallows visited their home, he found adults returning from their daily commutes and children discussing their day’s studies in unaccented American English.”
“Now India isn’t waiting, it is doing the more valuable mental work – in unaccented English.”
“Ms. BLOOM: And he spoke completely unaccented English, was very charismatic, and I think that that in itself explains part of the difference between Gadahn and Awlaki.”
“An answer-word cannot start with an unaccented syllable.”
“I'll tell you we did not allow answers like bamboo and review because they start with unaccented syllables, so those didn't count.”
“And the reason why he has such a great following in the West, more generally, is he speaks unaccented English, and he has sort of these touchstones, these cultural touchstones that he's able to reach out and grab people with.”
“And I said an answer word cannot start with an unaccented syllable.”
“Yes, the characters in the cartoons had Asian names and whatnot, but almost all of them spoke in unaccented American English, with American mindsets and American colloquialisms.”
“Except for Mako's Iroh and that Indian guru who shows up out of nowhere, and a few others, most of the characters spoke unaccented American standard.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unaccented’.
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EN - autological words and phrases
Words and phrases expressing a property which they also possess themselves: "noun" is a noun, "English" is English, etc. If W means W AND W is (a) W, then W is an autological item. Very often but n...
noun, polysyllabic, abbrv., word, common, English, lovely, sesquipedalian, heterological, short, term, terminus technicus and 63 more...
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Word Guidelines for Wordie
A set of rules I try to use for adding words to the site. Details for each rule are found in the first comment.
These rules are entirely unofficial! They are my own, and you can make gui...unpunctuated, unligatured, unaccented, lowercase, spelling, basic, exists
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