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átono
Used of syllables.
atonic
tonic
Spanish
átono
(Used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress.
light
weak
unstressed
1
She recognized as one of them the slow
unaccented
tones of Neigh.
2
Get that pencil out and try marking each accented and
unaccented
syllable.
3
And the unworried,
unaccented
voice of her father went on tormenting her.
4
They are both within the zone of the
unaccented
syllable of the iamb.
5
And I must say that your Web English is very
unaccented
.
6
Her French, Dale soon realized, was perfect,
unaccented
except for its Parisian sophistication.
7
By metre is meant a regular recurrence of accented syllables among
unaccented
syllables.
8
But there might also be as many
unaccented
syllables as the poet liked.
9
A Trochee has the first syllable accented, and the last
unaccented
;
as, Hātefŭl,péttish
10
An Iambus has the first syllable
unaccented
,
and the last accented; as, Bĕtrāy,consíst
11
Galiano's English was
unaccented
,
but spoken with a Latin cadence.
12
The group seems an iamb with a duplicated
unaccented
syllable.
13
His
unaccented
voice was almost as sweet as his scent.
14
His voice was also flat and firm, deep but
unaccented
.
15
An accented syllable is followed by one or two
unaccented
.
16
A Dactyle has the first syllable accented, and the two latter
unaccented
;
as, Lābŏrĕr,póssible
unaccented
unaccented syllable
unaccented voice
unaccented elements
unaccented tones
add unaccented
Spanish
átono