accented (adj.)

  1. used of syllables; a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word

    [ Syn: tonic ]

  2. bearing a stress or accent; an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay

    [ Syn: stressed ]

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