unstressed

IPA: ʌnstrˈɛst

Examples of "unstressed" in Sentences

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?