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ACCENTUAL

• ACCENTUAL (adjective)
The adjective ACCENTUAL has 2 senses:

1. of or pertaining to accent or stress
2. (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity

Familiarity information: ACCENTUAL used as an adjective is rare.

• ACCENTUAL (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Of or pertaining to accent or stress

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

accent (the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch))

Sense 2

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Meaning:

(of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity

Context examples:

accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line / accentual rhythm

Antonym:

quantitative ((of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables)

syllabic ((of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities)

"Clothes don't make the man."
(English proverb)
"On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"For smart people, signs can replace words."
(Arabic proverb)
"New brooms sweep clean"
(Dutch proverb)

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