accented, adj.
bearing a stress or accent
<adj.all>
accented stressed
sample sentences
"an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"
lexical pointers
antonym
semantic pointers
similar to
(used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch
<adj.all>
accented tonic
sample sentences
"a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word"
lexical pointers
antonym