unaccented [uhn-ak-sen-tid, uhn-ak-sen-] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for unaccented on Thesaurus.com adjective
- not accented; unstressed.
Origin of unaccented First recorded in 1590–1600; un-1 + accent + -ed2 Related Words for unaccented poor, quiet, dull, thin, small, feeble, low, dim, distant, gentle, imperceptible, inaudible, indistinct, muffled, pale, slight, whispered, bated, reedy, stifled Examples from the Web for unaccented Contemporary Examples of unaccented
He is self-aware enough to make them comfortable with his self-deprecating humor and unaccented English.
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But the shock of hearing someone who looks like Grout sing in unaccented Arabic soon dissipated and the crowd fell deadly silent.
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Michael Pizzi
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Not helping matters: the fact that everyone speaks in unaccented American English.
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Historical Examples of unaccented
And the unworried, unaccented voice of her father went on tormenting her.
Joseph Conrad
Aphesis is the loss of the unaccented first syllable, as in ‘baccy and ‘later.
Ernest Weekley
The syllable having the grave accent is, as we should say, unaccented.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin
Frances E. Lord
It is called feminine when it follows an unaccented syllable.
Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.
Like all his countrymen, he laid most stress on unaccented syllables.
Grant Allen