unstressed
/ʌnˈstɹɛst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not stressed or accentuated.
Example Sentences
- "Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear."
- "Due to the shape of the aspect infixes, ‹er› and ‹ol›, it is possible for the pseudovowels to occur immediately after their consonantal counterpart, as in *p‹ol›lltxe. When this happens in an unstressed syllable, the pseudovowel disappears, poltxe."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English stressed English unstressed From un- + stressed.
Inflected Forms
more unstressed (comparative)
most unstressed (superlative)