Antonyms of adj unstressed

1 sense of unstressed

Sense 1
unstressed (vs. stressed) -- (not bearing a stress or accent; "short vowels are unstressed")

stressed (vs. unstressed), accented -- (bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'")
        => emphatic, emphasized, emphasised -- (spoken with emphasis; "an emphatic word")
        => masculine -- ((music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable; "a masculine cadence"; "the masculine rhyme of `annoy, enjoy'")

Similarity of adj unstressed

1 sense of unstressed

Sense 1
unstressed (vs. stressed) -- (not bearing a stress or accent; "short vowels are unstressed")
       => feminine -- ((music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending")
       => unaccented, light, weak -- ((used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress; "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable"; "a weak stress on the second syllable")
       => unemphatic -- (not emphasized)

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