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Unstressed
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1. unstressed
not bearing a stress or accent
Example Sentences:'short vowels are unstressed'
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Unstressed
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1.
carrying relatively little stress; unemphasized
2. phonetics
of, relating to, or denoting the weakest accent in a word or breath group, which in some languages, such as English or German, is also associated with a reduction in vowel quality to a centralized (i) or (a)
3. prosody
(of a syllable in verse) having no stress or accent
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Unstressed
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1. Linguistics Not stressed or accented: an unstressed syllable.
2. Not exposed or subjected to stress.
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