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Unstressed

//ʌnˈstɹɛst// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    not stressed or accentuated

    "Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear."

  2. 2
    not subject to stress
Adjective
  1. 1
    not bearing a stress or accent wordnet

Etymology

From un- + stressed.

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