adj
Meaning 1
not stressed or accentuated
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unstressed
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ʌnˈstɹɛst/
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rhymes with -ɛst
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CMU ARPABET: AH0 N S T R EH1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
not subject to stress
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
not bearing a stress or accent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- short vowels are unstressed
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: stressed
History
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.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: ненаціскны́ (njenaciskný) — not stressed or accentuated
- Bulgarian: неуда́рен (neudáren) — not stressed or accentuated
- Catalan: àton — not stressed or accentuated
- Chinese Mandarin: 非重讀的 /非重读的 (fēi zhòngdú de) — not stressed or accentuated
- Czech: nepřízvučný — not stressed or accentuated
- Danish: tryksvag — not stressed or accentuated
- Dutch: onbeklemtoond — not stressed or accentuated
- Faroese: óherdur — not stressed or accentuated
- Faroese: herðingarveikur — not stressed or accentuated
- Faroese: áherðsluveikur — not stressed or accentuated
- Finnish: painoton — not stressed or accentuated
- French: non accentué — not stressed or accentuated
- French: inaccentué — not stressed or accentuated
- French: atone — not stressed or accentuated
- German: unbetont — not stressed or accentuated
- Hebrew: ללא טעם — not stressed or accentuated
- Hungarian: hangsúlytalan — not stressed or accentuated
- Italian: atono — not stressed or accentuated
- Italian: disaccentato — not stressed or accentuated
- Japanese: 強勢のない (kyōsei no nai) — not stressed or accentuated
- Korean: 강세가 없다 (gangse-ga eopda) — not stressed or accentuated
- Kyrgyz: басымсыз (basımsız) — not stressed or accentuated
- Polish: bezprzyciskowy — not stressed or accentuated
- Polish: nieakcentowany — not stressed or accentuated
- Portuguese: átono — not stressed or accentuated
- Portuguese: atónico — not stressed or accentuated
- Portuguese: atônico — not stressed or accentuated
- Romanian: aton — not stressed or accentuated
- Romanian: atonic — not stressed or accentuated
- Russian: безуда́рный (bezudárnyj) — not stressed or accentuated
- Spanish: átono — not stressed or accentuated
- Spanish: inacentuado — not stressed or accentuated
- Swedish: obetonad — not stressed or accentuated
- Ukrainian: ненаголо́шений (nenaholóšenyj) — not stressed or accentuated
- Catalan: inaccentuat — not subject to stress
- Finnish: stressitön — not subject to stress
- Russian: ненапряжённый (nenaprjažónnyj) — not subject to stress
- Spanish: non estresado — not subject to stress
Real reading context