Crossword clues for unstressed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unstressed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
syllable
▪ These words show very clearly the difficulty of the unstressed syllable.
▪ The production of stress is generally believed to depend on the speaker using more muscular energy than is used for unstressed syllables.
▪ In one sense, the error to be noted is the unstressed syllable rather than the others: plain for plane is understandable.
▪ It is usual for unstressed syllables to continue the pitch of the stressed syllable that precedes them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Health is described by phrases such as being happy, being unstressed and being able to cope.
▪ I have reproduced the unstressed results from the last chapter for the purposes of comparison.
▪ These words show very clearly the difficulty of the unstressed syllable.
▪ Three stressed sets of test utterances were included, derived from the corresponding unstressed sets.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
unstressed
a. 1 (context of a vowel English) not stressed or accentuated 2 not subject to stress
WordNet
unstressed
adj. not bearing a stress or accent; "short vowels are unstressed" [syn: unaccented] [ant: stressed]
Usage examples of "unstressed".
To my ear there were no defects in the unstressed delivery of his voice.
The vessel went out to five planetary diameters, where its Lawlor drive could take hold of relatively unstressed space.
Chapter 8 Lately Lanagan had taken to sitting on the front porch steps in the evening, where it was nice and peaceful and conducive to unstressed thinking.
Untested, unstressed internal supports and exterior deflectors ached under the strain, and the strain refused to go away.