unstressed
IPA: ʌnstrˈɛst
adjective
- (of a vowel) not stressed or accentuated
- not subject to stress
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Examples of "unstressed" in Sentences
- Often the final syllable is unstressed.
- The unstressed syllable will be shorter.
- Reduction and loss of unstressed vowels.
- The sound in question is or or unstressed .
- A vowel in an unstressed syllable is a schwa.
- As a rule, the possessive prefixes are unstressed.
- He describes as varying as in unstressed syllables, and unstressed as.
- Prefixes are unstressed, while suffixes may be stressed or unstressed.
- The fixation of the stress led to sound changes in unstressed syllables.
- The accent for an unstressed syllable is a U above the unstressed syllable.
- Easy winters and plentiful food result in unstressed bucks that tend to hold antlers longer.
- At 9: 47, my friend entered the restaurant, apologizing profusely but looking strikingly unstressed.
- Gabe dw: I only have a weak separation between [ɪ] and [ə] in unstressed syllables, so have trouble telling them apart.
- If man is a stressed syllable, the word feels less neutral than if man is an unstressed syllable (spokesMAN vs. SPOKESman).
- Unlike English, which usually reduces unstressed vowels to "uh", Spanish pronounces all vowels, stressed or not, very clearly.
- I have to admit that congressperson has always sounded very strange to me, so I still do occasionally use congressman in generic cases, but I do so with a very unstressed final syllable.
- Who knew, for instance, that iambs an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one make feminine-sounding names, such as Chanel, while the reverse—called a trochee—has the masculine sound of Black & Decker?
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