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

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de Gaulle