Associations to the word «Accentual»

Wiktionary

ACCENTUAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
ACCENTUAL, adjective. Designating verse rhythms based on stress accents.

Dictionary definition

ACCENTUAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to accent or stress.
ACCENTUAL, adjective. (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity; "accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line"; "accentual rhythm".

Wise words

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