Dictionary

unstressed en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (General-American) audio
• /ʌnˈstɹɛst/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English stressed English unstressed From un- + stressed.

Meanings

1. (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. 2004 October 14, Don Ringe, “Old English maþelian, mæþlan, mǣlan”, in J. H. W. Penney, editor, Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 427:
   • Due to the shape of the aspect infixes, ‹er› and ‹ol›, it is possible for the pseudovowels to occur immediately after their consonantal counterpart, as in *p‹ol›lltxe. When this happens in an unstressed syllable, the pseudovowel disappears, poltxe. 2024 August 27, William S. Annis, “A Reference Grammar of Na’vi”, in Learn Na'vi, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025, page 14:
2. Not subject to stress.

Forms

Deriveds

unstressedness · unstressedly

Translations (38)

ja 強勢のない (not stressed or accentuated) · ro atonic (not stressed or accentuated) · pt átono (not stressed or accentuated) · es inacentuado (not stressed or accentuated) · fi painoton (not stressed or accentuated) · fo herðingarveikur (not stressed or accentuated) · ky басымсыз (not stressed or accentuated) · pt atónico (not stressed or accentuated) · fr atone (not stressed or accentuated) · be ненаціскны́ (not stressed or accentuated) · it disaccentato (not stressed or accentuated) · ca àton (not stressed or accentuated) · es átono (not stressed or accentuated) · cs nepřízvučný (not stressed or accentuated) · it atono (not stressed or accentuated) · fi stressitön (not subject to stress) · fo óherdur (not stressed or accentuated) · de unbetont (not stressed or accentuated) · ru ненапряжённый (not subject to stress) · sv obetonad (not stressed or accentuated) · ru безуда́рный (not stressed or accentuated) · fr inaccentué (not stressed or accentuated) · da tryksvag (not stressed or accentuated) · es non estresado (not subject to stress) · nl onbeklemtoond (not stressed or accentuated) · fr non accentué (not stressed or accentuated) · hu hangsúlytalan (not stressed or accentuated) · ro aton (not stressed or accentuated) · cmn 非重讀的 /非重读的 (not stressed or accentuated) · pt atônico (not stressed or accentuated) · pl nieakcentowany (not stressed or accentuated) · pl bezprzyciskowy (not stressed or accentuated) · ko 강세가 없다 (not stressed or accentuated) · he ללא טעם (not stressed or accentuated) · bg неуда́рен (not stressed or accentuated) · fo áherðsluveikur (not stressed or accentuated) · ca inaccentuat (not subject to stress) · uk ненаголо́шений (not stressed or accentuated)