Accented

Synonyms for "accented" (96 found)

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Closest matches (20)

Adjective(6 words)

stressed accentual accentuatebold stripediacritical diacritize

Verb(1 words)

accentuated

alveolar assimilated back bilabial broad central cerebral close consonant decided dental

Noun(2 words)

diacriticdiacritic set

Strong matches (28)

Adjective(9 words)

diacritized emphasize emphasized emphaticemphatic adverbemphatic answeremphatic statementsfrench pronunciationsgreek tonos

dorsal flat forceful forcible front glide glossal glottal guttural hard heavy high italicized labial lateral lax light lingual liquid

Related words (48)

low mid muted narrow nasal nasalized occlusive open palatal pharyngeal phonemic phonetic phonic pitched pointed positive retroflex rounded soft sonant

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stopped strong surd syllabic tense thick throaty tonal twangy unaccented unstressed voiced voiceless vowel weak wide

Adjective(7 words)

markednonenglish spellingnonnative pronunciationspoken emphasisstressstrong emphasistonic

Noun(3 words)

more nonnativeplunking sforzando

Verb(2 words)

pronounced underlined

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

10 entries

articulation devicediacritic usagediacritics emphasislinguistic stylemusical articulationorthographic featurephonological attributeprosodic featurerhetorical style

More specific

11 entries

acute accentcedillaemphatic rhetoricemphatic stylegrave accentmarcatoprimary stresssecondary stresssforzando tildeunstressed syllable

Collocations

8 entries

accented lettersaccented noteaccented pronunciationaccented syllableaccented syllablesaccented textaccented vowelsaccented word

Inflections

2 entries

accenting accents

Derivations

6 entries

accentedness accentual accentually accentuate accentuates accentuation

similar

4 entries

emphasised emphasized emphatic masculine

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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How is the word accented?

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His bushy brows accented his face.

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Which syllable is accented in the word "Australia"?

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A man was driving his car in France, when he was stopped by a policeman, whom he greeted in thickly accented French. Before asking for his driver's license, the policeman asked, "Are you a foreigner, sir?" To which the man replied, "No, I'm English."

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