What does unstressed mean?
Unstressed means (of a vowel) not stressed or accentuated.
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/ʌnˈstɹɛst/ · adjective
(of a vowel) 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.
Use unstressed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unstressed means (of a vowel) not stressed or accentuated.
Common synonyms include light, short, weak, feminine.
Possible antonyms include stressed.
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.
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